Doubly Accounting
Probably the most frequent question with which artists are confronted is: "Can you live from making art?"
Martin Gut mocked this question by placing his own income at the centre of his activity and displaying it as a worksituation.
On the occasion of the opening of the "Neuen Kunsthalle, Lucerne" he sat with an improvised office complete with accounting material in front of the KKL Lucerne which cost a mere 26.5 million Swiss Francs. His activity was one of six which were carried out in Lucerne on that day.
From 8.15 am to 12 am and from 1.15 pm to 5 pm Martin Gut kept his doubly accounting and announced that he would fill out his tax declaration. He abided to the conventions of offices and broke off his work at the traditional pauses in swiss administration offices - at 9am there was coffee and croissants, lunch was at 12 am and finally some coffee and cake at 3.15 pm.
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SIX ACTIONS FOR LUCERNE / They are also nice and beatiful too, these questions - hopefully. Curated by Lillian Fellmann
Alongside the Doubly Accounting by Martin Gut the following artists displayed their projects on the occasion of the openening of the Kunstalle II Lucerne:
fleischlin/galeazzi with Hopping in Precarious Gardens
Daniel Glaser/Magdalena Kunz with Auto-Portrait
Anastasia Katsidis with Lacking/ Sparing Laboratories
Christian Ratti with a Door on the Sea and Under the Bridge, Temporarily
Reinigungsgesellschaft with the Street of the Exodus from Cities
Title: Doubly Accounting
Artist: Martin Gut
Year: 2008
Material used: desktop, office chair, laptop, proofs
Type: art action
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Martin Gut during the activity "Doubly Accounting" in front of the KKL in Lucerne on January 23 2008. Photograph, Stefan Renggli
