01_Davis_Untitled_2010

 

The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts is proud to announce “01_Davis_Untitled_2010”, the first site-specific work commissioned for its revolutionary exhibition space to the London-based artist Paul B. Davis.

The first artist to be featured at the MINI Museum, Davis decided to exploit this extraordinary opportunity to turn his interest in circuit bending and hacking systems into a form of “institutional critique”. When you turn it on, if there is no memory card inserted, the MINI Museum displays a default screensaver featuring three kitschy landscape images set, for some mysterious reasons, somewhere in Greece. Davis opened the device to see if it was possible to get those images out of it; but when he realized that, beyond its glamorous surface, the MINI Museum is actually a piece of «ghetto chinese engineering», he decided to simply take photos of the Museum when it displayed those demo images. Then he made «a screwed and chopped remix of Manuel Göttsching’s seminal proto-techno track E2-E4» (1984) and he copied both the track and the photos on the USB pen drive.

 

After showing the work in the toilette of the Seventeen Gallery in London, Davis gave the MINI Museum to the English artists duo Thomson & Craighead. More informations on the MINI Museum website.