Bliz-aard Ball Sale
by Elena Filipovic
- Author(s)
- Elena Filipovic
- Publication, year
- London : Afterall Books, 2017
- Scope
- 158 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781846381867
In this book, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find. And through it, she reveals Bliz-aard Ball Sale to be the backbone of a radical artistic oeuvre that transforms such notions as “art,” “commodity,” “performance,” and even “race” into categories that shift and dissolve, much like slowly melting snowballs. The story: One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action Bliz-aard Ball Sale.
- Person as subject
- David Hammons
- Location
- Cabinet 3 - 6: Kunstenaars
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