Unlearning
  • ephemera
  • loose leaf
  • photocopy / xeroxed
  • black-and-white
  • 28 x 21.5 cm
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Unlearning

Kenny Schachter

Unlearning

description

Single page xeroxed press release for show held at "Somewhere on Wooster Street" [142 Greene Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY], November 1 - December 7, 1991 [December 1991 / January 1992]. Early manifesto by Kenny Schachter on the economic structure of the art world. "One of his earliest exhibitions, ''''Unlearning,'''' sought precisely to turn the prevailing construct upside down. Invading a former plush Greene Street gallery, Schachter took down the velvet ropes that had kept visitors from the storerooms and offices. Art went everywhere: Rachel Harrison presented a collection of used tampons in the pristine print drawers. Schachter sold sandwiches, had a row of bus seats installed and kept the doors open seven days a week. He also showed his own work, perhaps the supreme faux pas of the gallery world." — from "The Do-It-Yourself Dealers," by Ellen Pall in The New York Times , September 1, 1996.

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