Au revoir!

For 8 years this project has run, coming up with 59 stalwart concepts, actions or critiques of contemporary art. However, life has opened other paths to me so I bid you all au revoir!

#59 (WOTD)

Use dictionary.com's "Word of the Day" daily in my Twitter feed; this project was begun on December 15, 2015.

Here are some samples:

#58 (Sous Rature)

5 erasers equally spaced under Sol Lewitt's "Wall Drawing #65. Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall" at the Corcoran Gallery - a subliminal invitation to erase an "artwork" planned for imminent destruction. 

#57

Discarded Richard Prince hoodie.

#55

To: John Perreault

perreault@aol.com

Cher John,

Merci beaucoup pour votre soumission pour le spectacle de Readymade@100.

Je nomme... que vous volez quelque chose. 

Ensuite, le photographier et nous l'envoyer. 

Meilleurs voeux,

Mark Cameron Boyd

3 juin 2014

[English translation:

Dear John,

Many thanks for your submission for the Readymade@100 show.

I designate . . . that you steal something.

Then photograph it and send it to us.

Best wishes,

Mark Cameron Boyd

June 3, 2014]

#54

Don Judd's on the move; 495 Beltway, 4/7/14.

#53

Perspective re-alignment of Ellsworth Kelly, "Red, Yellow, Blue V" (1968)
[Hirshhorn Friday Gallery Talk: 12:30pm, Oct. 25, 2013]

#52

Mini-Ruppert #1
(John Ruppert)

#51

13 abandoned Anthony Caro sculptures.

#50

Place fake pigeon [black arrow] among others roosting in parking lot at Greenbelt Mall.

#49 (Thirteen)

Perform 13 "digital actions" this year involving numeral 13; 1 each month & 2 this first month of January:
#1: Download "The Very Best of the 13th Floor Elevators"

#48 (After Duchamp, After Prince, After Dylan)

After Duchamp, After Prince, After Dylan.

#47

Homage to Ai Weiwei's "piles."

#46

"S-T-O-O-L:
1. a single seat on [THREE, FROM NOW ON] legs...

IMAGE: "DIAPHRAGM Stool” by Michaël Bihain, images courtesy of Anthony Graci; courtesy .itsliquid.

#45 ("Exchange" Project)

The following was sent to the "active participants" of this project:

"Greetings,

Addressees of this email have been confirmed as "active participants" in my artwork "Untitled participatory installation #4" that was exhibited last Summer in the "Medium of Exchange" exhibition at Towson University's Center for the Arts gallery.

As my "Value Statement" expressed, "participation is an 'exchange' of labor. Thus, active participants exchange their labor for a share of possible future profits when the artwork is sold."

The key word is "possible." To that end, I've attached a JPEG of the "final state" of my artwork when I removed it from the gallery on August 7, 2011. Feel free to share the image with art collectors, curators or anyone you think may be interested in either purchasing or showing the work. When the artwork has been purchased you will receive your share of the profits.

Best,
MCB"

IMAGE: "Untitled participatory installation #4" (2011); blackboard paint, chalk, pencil, pastel on MDF; H48"xW98"; © Copyright 2011 by Mark Cameron Boyd.

#44

Index card with two holes punched in it (for a reason known only to me) & the words, "Not Random," written in ink; for Tino Sehgal)

#43 (Dematerialized Breslar)

Dematerialization of Reuben Breslar's "IB520100927B" on April 9, 2011; resultant tape-ball discarded in wastebin; RB granted verbal permission for action.

#42

Abandoned Koons.

#41

Robert Morris's Untitled (Scatter Piece) found on 17th Street, NW.(1)
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1. "Morris maintains that Untitled (Scatter Piece) would exist in a perfectly valid iteration while in storage—presumably neatly stacked rather than strewn about."

#40 (Instructional Painting)

Instructions to make a painting, passed from student to student in my art theory class, as in "The Exquisite Corpse" exercise, in response to Sol Lewitt's "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art."

1. Draw a symmetrical shape with and(sic) asymmetrical one.
2. Must include at least 4 sets of dotted lines
3. Draw an arrow shape around directions one and two- place one + two within the arrow
4. Draw a symmetrical shape to enclose one + two + three
5. Cover ½ of #1-4 with white acrylic paint OR duplicate 1-4
6. (if you want to do both you need to get permission from minimum 10 students who made the rules on Sept. 22 2010
7. It must be made from one continuous line
8. But the line has two(sic) be getting thicker gradually
9. Draw a line above the thickest part of the previous line
10. Draw a line connecting to end points of #8
11. Erase It all
12. Sign the work of art T.N.2010 with a red marker

(From an idea proposed by Forest Allread.)