The B-Thing

Gelatin - Tex Rubinowitz (text)

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Koln, 2001

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Large octavo, un paginated, 62 pages of which 2 fold out pages + 23 photographic plates. Illustrated paper over boards. Mint. - First edition. Rubinowitz: And then the surgical intervention in the World Trade Center in New York City. Everything top secret and illegal of course. In days of conspiratorial work, somewhere on the 148th floor and using building site refuse they had tediously smuggled into the building under their pullovers, they constructed a functioning load-bearing balcony. In a long complicated process they scratched putty from the tall heavy window, which couldn't be opened. Then they extracted it using suction pads, shunted the balcony out, posed on it at 6 in the morning and had themselves photographed there from a helicopter for their nearest and dearest back home. They kept very mum about it all, because if word had crept out about their coup they could have been fined very heavily for sabotaging a national treasure. Even if it was built by the Japanese. Incidentally, as proof that they were there, there is now a piece of old chewing gum stuck to the outside of the building at a dizzy height. Moukhtar Kocache Director of Visual Art & Media: Dear Colleagues, The purpose of this letter is to categorically deny and refute Gelatin's (the Austrian art collective) preposterous claim to have removed a window and installed a balcony from the 91st floor of Tower 1 in the World Trade Center, while guests and in residence at World Views, LMCC's internationally acclaimed studio program. No one in his or her sane mind would believe such an account! Talk about this action has recently taken on plague proportion in the sensation driven and rumor hungry art world. Rumors and claims that are concocted by no one else but Gelatin's adolescent-like members. Anyone that is familiar with their work knows very well that these boys thrive on shock value and attention. They are pranksters in real life and often aim to introduce an element of doubt and disbelief in their art; they are in fact masters of deception and their real art for the program at the World Trade Center has been to fabricate this action and promulgate it as an urban myth. Seller Inventory # 001298

Bibliographic Details

Title: The B-Thing

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Koln

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New