by Corinna Kirsch on October 12, 2012
Chelsea is about to get noisier. Chelsea’s unruly non-profit spaces Printed Matter, Electronic Arts Intermix, Eyebeam, and Family Business have joined forces to put together CHELSEA SOUND, an all-day art and music festival held on Saturday, October 27th.
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by Whitney Kimball and Will Brand 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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