Collecting Dust & Other Things

This two-month "performance" in autumn of 2008 was held at Four Walls, an art gallery in San Diego. The exhibition venue was converted into a hair salon where guests were treated to haircuts and encouraged to talk about their experiences, concerns and roles in the art scene in the city. Since the piece could not be viewed or witnessed by any one person over such a sustained period of time in its totality, the conversations were memorialized in an artist's book created by Four Walls, titled "Collecting Dust and Other Things." Since each participant spoke from their specific perspective, identifying and airing their individual and institutional interests, the work's culmination may be read as a public forum, a kind of Town Hall meeting. Interviews, "before" and "after" snapshots, photo documentation, and texts of this time-based work are available in the link below. Details about this event include the following. Fourteen respondents scheduled appointments in the following order: Patricia Frischer, Coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network; Kevin Freitas, Editor and writer for artasauthority.com an art blog; Michele Robinson, Owner of Ray Street Frame; Monica Hoover, Director of Voice gallery; Hugh Davies, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art; David White, Owner of Agitprop gallery; Kinsee Morlan, Arts Editor of San Diego City Beat; Emily Fierer, Co-owner of Spacecraft Studio; Lea Caughlan, Co-owner of the Rubber Rose; Carly Delso-Saavedra, Co-owner of the Rubber Rose; Betti-Sue Hertz, Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art; Larry Caveney, Artist and Instructor at the Art Institute San Diego; Doug Simay, Owner of Simayspace; and Luis De Jesus, Owner of Luis De Jesus, Seminal Projects. Elliott Linwood conceptualized and implemented this project as a task-oriented and diaristic Life Art piece.