...to drill shallow indentations on the white wall of an exhibition space, in order to create a text, in the form of a simple font constructed out of circles (see bottom of post for font example).
The indentations will reveal the layers of paint used in preparing previous exhibitions. The text will read:
What would Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham do?
What would Robert Milkwood Thomas do?
What would Robert Allen Zimmerman do?
What would Tedham Porterhouse do?
What would Blind Boy Grunt do?
What would Elmer Johnson do?
What would Sergei Petrov do?
What would Elston Gunnn do?
What would Bob Dylan do?
What would Jack Frost do?
What would Jack Fate do?
(example of font)
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Shortly after writing this proposal I came across Pierre Huyghe's 'Time keeper'. That also is a wall piece - where the white gallery wall is sanded down through previous layers of paint in one spot, with a handheld electric sander, to reveal the layers of previous exhibitions.
More worryingly, I then remembered Jeremy Deller's 'What would Neil Young do?' posters. Not that my idea relied on an ageing male folk-rolk legend, but still seems uncannily similar.
Genuinely didn't realise I was cribbing other people's work so blatantly... and seems more successful as two separate pieces. So I think this proposal takes a slightly embarrassed bow and exits stage left.
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