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      Smash This Puny Existence

      Black & white | 678 x 478 mm, 6 large format sheets rolled and housed in a cardboard tube | 1999 | Edition of 1,500 copies
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Smash This Puny Existence is a poster publication from the artists’ collective Inventory that exists as a series of large format double-sided sheets that can be added to, amended, cut up or flyposted.

Smash This Puny Existence emerged from street actions staged by Inventory in streets in London and Glasgow. Overnight, the collective fly-posted a series of newly-commissioned texts and images along with ‘found’ material, transforming two busy thoroughfares into public ‘newspapers’. The street became a discursive, polemical space, a place for the exchange of ideas and information. Smash This Puny Existence considers ideas of mapping and navigation and the daily ebb and flow of the urban environment. It is a significant contribution to Inventory's ongoing determination of a ‘fierce sociology’.


アーティスト集団[Inventory]が制作したポスター集。夜中を通して、[Inventory]のメンバーはロンドンやグラスゴーの主要な大通り沿いに自分たちで制作したテキストや写真を不法に貼付けた。それによってその道路はアイデアと情報を交換する議論の場へと変化を遂げた。
この出版物は、そのパフォーマンスをもとに作成されており、ポスターの購入者はそれを切ったり、好きなところに貼ったりすることで、そのパフォーマンスの様子を再体験できるようになっている。
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