Mel Chin, SAFEHOUSE, 2008.
Got a real brief preview in the new DECIDER of Mel Chin's FUNDRED/PAYDIRT project now showing at the Arlington Arts Center. The show is both an active collection site for area Fundred dollar bills and the local extension of Chin's artwork.
After talking with Chin, I feel extremely comfortable thinking that this project is a very significant contemporary artwork. It is first and foremost a petition: Chin is very plainly, if ostentatiously, asking Congress for something that he (and scores of scientists and thousands of New Orleanians and millions of schoolchidren) wants Congress to do. Now, a petition as art is no more unlikely a form than any any other strategy that has come to occupy the notion of "project." But FUNDRED/PAYDIRT is a crowdsourced piece, and for that, sourced by a very unlikely crowd. The crowd is primarily children, yes, but further, it is a representative swath of Americans: How often can anyone say he has reached out to that group?
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