http://www.moca.org/kaprow Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:37:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.moca.org/kaprow/index.php/79/comment-page-1/#comment-101 christopher robbins blog » Blog Archive » trading dirt Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:37:32 +0000 http://www.moca.org/kaprow/index.php/79/#comment-101 [...] trading dirt: “Stories can be used to obfuscate or inflate an item’s value- as in the pitch of a used-car salesman- but Kaprow’s telling of how meaningful the contents of his bucket were had to be trustworthy for a fair trade to take place. Since all fair trades are based on a mutual trust, “the ethics of friendliness” were key to this enactment. With the wink of an eye and a firm handshake, Kaprow’s storytelling moved the trading forward, animating its social interactions and adding narrative value to the dirt from bucket to bucket. It became clear to Kaprow that storytelling was integral to the work’s unfolding: he was telling stories of the trading as the trading was generating stories. Storytelling, in this sense, is not recollection after the fact, but the metaphorical expression of what one is doing as one is doing it.” [...] [...] trading dirt: “Stories can be used to obfuscate or inflate an item’s value- as in the pitch of a used-car salesman- but Kaprow’s telling of how meaningful the contents of his bucket were had to be trustworthy for a fair trade to take place. Since all fair trades are based on a mutual trust, “the ethics of friendliness” were key to this enactment. With the wink of an eye and a firm handshake, Kaprow’s storytelling moved the trading forward, animating its social interactions and adding narrative value to the dirt from bucket to bucket. It became clear to Kaprow that storytelling was integral to the work’s unfolding: he was telling stories of the trading as the trading was generating stories. Storytelling, in this sense, is not recollection after the fact, but the metaphorical expression of what one is doing as one is doing it.” [...]

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