work (category: commodification, page 4)

Empty Pockets, 2004

video/live performance, including 24.9 lbs of pennies collected from friends' change jars and various stores' "take a penny, leave a penny" containers
2:17min DVD
edition of 5, 2 APs

location: Miami Beach Convention Center, during the Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair

description: I walked through the convention center, wearing a pair of old jeans with a hole in the right front pocket. I filled the pocket with pennies, and as I walked, they slipped out of the pocket, through the hole, scattering throughout the Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair.

Empty Pockets
image above: video performance still

Empty Pockets
image above: video performance still

Empty Pockets
image above: video performance still

Empty Pockets
image above: video performance still

By Kathryn Cornelius