It seems that the American temperament doesn’t associate art with humor. Humor is not considered serious. Many structural works really are almost hilarious. You know, the dumber, more stupid ones are really verging on a kind of concrete humor...
-Robert Smithson in conversation with Allan Kaprow
Is an open ended project for performance, print, installation and video. Essentially it is a database of photographs of 20th century sculpture from which all background information has been omitted. While famous works are not excluded from the collection, they appear with a frequency in scale to their material presence in the whole of abstract sculptural production.
The image is an object, a grim, abysmall one.
-Donald Judd
Concrete Humor made it's debut at the Kitchen during a reading marking the release of Bidoun's OBJECTS issue. Slides from the archive accompanied author's readings from the issue.
Slides were changed at dramatic moments in the texts, to illustrate highly descriptive passages, during pauses and after laughter.
Concrete humor is a work in progress.
Gary Dauphin at a reading for Bidoun at the Kitchen, NYC, April 8th, 2008
