by Paddy Johnson on October 16, 2012
Is your art a little too weird for the establishment? Do you like to wear a few too many kinds of plaid at once? Has your mother ever expressed worry about your future?
If you’ve said “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to submit your work to Flux Factory’s open call for submissions.
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by Whitney Kimball on September 25, 2012
As we found out during a trip to Chelsea this weekend, a Family Business internship entails guarding art on a folding chair, in a roughly 10 x 10 foot closet space. You’re not getting paid, you don’t get a computer, and the gallery doesn’t sell anything, so you’re not exactly making useful contacts. Currently the gallery is packed with instruments, so there’s also a giant gong a few feet from your head which everybody’s invited to hit with a mallet. Sounds just like the “training which would be given in an educational environment” that is legally required of an unpaid internship, hahahahahaha!
But just for laughs, we thought we’d lay out a few academic or training scenarios which Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan had in mind when they tasked a presumably educated young hopeful to guard their art all day.
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