David Horvitz’s "For 2009, Idea Subscription__"

David Horvitz's For 2009, Idea Subscription__ is a nice participatory project. Horvitz writes:

For all of 2009 I will send out small texts of simple instructional ideas through the mailing list below. I will also post screenshots of them on this tumblr page. These will not be done everyday, only when i feel like it and have access to the internet. But the attempt will be to do them everyday. You can also receive these in the postal mail.

One such instruction is to take a photo of your head in a freezer and post it online and tag it with 241543903:

Image: 241543903 from flickr user .y.a.r.a.

Image: 241543903 from flickr user hugotsantos

Image: 241543903 from flickr user hubs

There certainly been work like this before (see my earlier post on Yono Oko, Erwin Wurm, and Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher), but there's certainly room for more.

Oddly, my graduate sculpture class's recreation of a recreation of an Erwin Wurm "Sculpture to Embarrass" looks strikingly like the image above (below left is from an Erwin Wurm monography, below right from my class):


[via Ceci Moss on Rhizome]