LG Williams Takes Responsibility For Anything At Telephonebooth
This press release turns the ritual of public contrition into a slapstick art-world confession, with Williams "taking responsibility" for anything, anywhere, provided the fee is right. The document begins in hangover, debt, sake, and art-fair rumor, then escalates into a mock statesmanlike address from a stolen milk crate near Telephonebooth. Its comedy is political in structure: apology, compromise, accountability, and messaging are treated as empty procedures that can be filled with any blank, any purchase, any catastrophe. Tim Brown's Telephonebooth becomes less a gallery than a scene of exhausted authority, where art practice, preaching, economics, and oblivion collapse into one unsteady press conference. The piece is a vicious little parody of leadership after failure, and of an art world always eager to confuse collapse with strategic repositioning.
- DATE:
- December 4, 2010
- DOCUMENT TYPE:
- Essay / Critique
- NAMED ARTISTS / FIGURES:
- LG Williams; Tim Brown; Ronald Reagan; Bill Clinton; Pericles
- INSTITUTIONS / VENUES:
- Telephonebooth; The Estate of LG Williams; McDonald's
- KEYWORDS:
- public contrition as form; taking responsibility for everything; responsibility without content; slapstick confession; accountability theater; apology as medium