Haaning told Danish radio at the time: “The work is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”
Flawless. No notes.
Honestly, if he titled the works Breach of Contract, I say he wins. Seems valid enough in a Banksyesque way.
Bullshit! Derivative!
Well they’re bone honest if nothing else.
No bank notes
FTFY
(Yes, I’m completing my own joke, what’s it to ya? None of yall capitalized on the setup, so now it’s my sacred duty and I’m not gonna sully it by sock-puppeting or editing my original post.)
Well it’s only fair, he essentially handed in an empty paper. You get an F for that in school, too. Plus he very openly mocked them about it, too.
Okay, this is…. Funny, but it sounds like some of the money was meant to be used in the artwork (the commission was to recreate prior work that used money to represent incomes of people,)
So, funny, but, uh…. Morally dubious at best
I am a little surprised the court didn’t tell him to give back the artist’s fee too. 3,600 dollars to do nothing and fuck off without doing the work that he was paid to do.
“Haaning told Danish radio at the time: “The work is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.””
This has sovereign citizen energy
Oh I never thought of that. I’m super in to sovereign citizens. I joined a bunch of their Facebook groups for fun. They’re bonkers like this guy.
The artists have found a good way to lose support for arts funding
It ain’t AI, so he should copyright the art.
