Seth Price
b. 1973
Through paintings, sculpture, video, and media work, Seth Price underlines the production strategies, dissemination modes, and valuation patterns that art most typically occupies or assumes. His appropriative work, which often comprises what he terms the “redistribution” of pirated materials such as music and published texts and the circulation of archival footage and data culled from the internet, disrupts the operations of commodity culture and the information systems on which its ingratiating fluidity depends. While his practice evades rhetorical summation and aesthetic synthesis alike—effectively becoming mimetic of its profligate situation—the artist’s interest in the mobility of form suggests a common denominator. The music compilations that make up the series Title Variable (2001– ), for instance, reference episodes in recent music history, including video-game soundtracks and hip-hop. Released in various formats, Price’s mixes have been delivered online and through bookstores and museums, accompanied by the artist’s essays on each music form. Ranging from vacuum-formed bomber jackets to 16-millimeter projections of rolling waves, Price’s employ of interchangeable and non…
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