| YOSHUA OKON Art Wrestling, 2008 |
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Art Wrestling is a site-specific arm wrestling contest in which anyone at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair can compete for art works from the Art Positions galleries. With the slogan “transform your muscle power into acquisition power,” an MC referees contestants in the male and female categories and describes the prize pieces giving his own idiosyncratic interpretations. This art fair Sideshow reveals the points where the fair-as-carnival/spectacle and the fair-as-art converge and diverge and, in good carnival spirit, enables people who would not typically or necessarily have the purchasing power to own a piece of art. The contest is accompanied by a poster campaign spreading the performativity of the piece beyond the stage and inviting participants from all over Miami Beach. |
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