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> Haaning told Danish radio at the time: "The work is that I have taken their money. It's not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of
by klyrs 3y ago
> Haaning told Danish radio at the time: "The work is that I have taken their money. It's not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work."
Whoops. You weren't supposed to admit that it was breach of contract. You were supposed to say that by displaying your art, they publicly signaled their acceptance of the work. They're trying to get a refund on the sandwich they just ate. You could have told them to piss off if you hadn't characterized the work as a breach of contract. Or, that's the legal advice a scammer would follow. Instead, it's a proof of principled action that, in my mind, restores its status as a work of art.
> He added: "I encourage other people who have working conditions as miserable as mine to do the same. If they're sitting in some shitty job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it."
- germandiago 3y agoHe encourages... I think honest people, when we are not good enough at something, should pick another job and move on. That's how things are.
- justtocomment 3y agoThat's how things are for some. Not everybody has this luxury.
- IshKebab 3y agoHe's an artist. He's not stacking shelves in a supermarket.
- germandiago 3y agoIn a country like Denmark your labour chances and universities are better in average than in mine, Spain. It looks like nowadays everything is suffering, exploited or something. I lived for almost 12 years in Asia, mostly in Vietnam, but also in Singapore. Seriously, the concept of miserable that we have in Europe has become (at least according to my perception) something like "I do not like it, so it is ok to go get the money from a museum, to get social helps, to blame the politicians about the labor market... whatever". I think that is not honest at all most of the time. The average local in Vietnam lives in much harder conditions actually. I do not mean we should live like them. But be aware that most people in the world live like Vietnamese, not like Danish, in average.
- klyrs 3y agoIf they wanted to hire a financial analyst (or whatever) to make a visualization of the "average $country annual wage," they could have hired one. It would have occupied a spot in their gallery; nobody outside the walls of the museum would ever know or care. Instead, they hired an artiste/provocateur. He did the work that he is best at: he got the museum all over the international news, bringing significantly more value to the institution than if he had satisfied their small-minded request that he remake a previous work with insignificant changes. Talk about bringing value to the organization; this guy is more effective than most CEOs I've known.