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KQED review by Kristen Farr:
Jocelyn Maggait's Free: A Utopian Project was the aforementioned pile of junk, which is what it looked like at first glance. This makeshift store of objects was culled from the free section on Craigslist, then curated and stacked together in poignant, aesthetically pleasing piles of handled objects, many of which had a creative bent. The artist invited her audience to take something home and consider the history of the object. I scored a plastic hot dog bun for my fake food collection and wondered how many children or animals had slobbered on it since 1987, which was the production date stamped on the bottom.
SFChronicle review by Leah Garchik
This year's Mills College master of fine arts exhibition, "The Last Show on
Earth,"
on all through May, features work by 12 artists.
Jocelyn Meggait's "Utopian Free Economy Project" is described in the
online catalog as "a socially interactive installation in which all
objects are offered for free with one small caveat - consider the object's
past, present and future economic and ecological presence." The artist
gathered a pile of stuff - including a piano, Polaroid cameras, labels, plaster
molds and costumes - offered free on Craigslist, and is offering it free to
gallery goers.
The photo installation
of Susanna
Corcoran, who tipped me off
about this, is described as "intervening in the commonplace" to
create "temporary situations." She poured colored milk into a
reservoir, a bay and small containers, creating what she describes as
"lunar landscapes or brain scans."
