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A Modest Price for My Work 

Audio transcription of received emails (Jun.—Oct. 2020, single channel audio) with live-streamed video (26 Oct. 2020, single channel video)
00:07:06
2020

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“Now art is being made in smaller spaces,
on kitchen tables,
out of things at hand,
with kids nearby,
cooking happening in the background, […]
This is how our species made most things over the last 50,000 years.
Creativity was with us in the caves […]
Viruses don’t kill art. ” 1
So remarked a cable thief,
mid-act,
to the journalist, Bheki C. Simelane:
“If a money van is prised open
and everyone scrambles for cash,
you want to tell me that you will stand by and watch?”
Criminality is at the limit of law
but not necessarily at the limit of acceptability
The long-standing prevalence
of theft for example
would suggest that theft is in fact
in some way an accepted fact
of contemporary society, culture and economy
In certain regards
particularly concerning the rewards
of wealth, status and means
received by successful practitioners of either
I would argue that theft is more
widely acceptable than art

Art has no rules so that
the rules applied by
the society who judge it are
made evident

Today the only subversive art
is not art that can’t be sold
The only subversive art
is art that can’t be seen