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"Here are some things that have gone wrong with our various projects:
1. One public sound piece was misinterpreted as an emergency alert.
2. A Los Angeles granting agency rejected our proposal because we were 'too innovative to scale.'
3. We thought locking kids into the trunks of cars was a good idea.
4. A New York residency was canceled because the owners sold the building.
5. We organized a fundraising event around fondue on the hottest day of the year.
6. A public art series was canceled midway because of “questionable artistic quality.”
7. We tried to open a DIY drive-through frying restaurant.
8. A museum residency concluded early because they’d 'had enough.'
9. We heavily promoted an event where the performers ended up outnumbering the people that showed up.
10. We convinced a museum to produce a limited-edition print for our show. They sold three out of one hundred.
11. We opened a mobile performance that entailed driving around Los Angeles on the same day that a flaming tanker explosion closed down the freeway exchange mid-route.
12. Everyone left town for the weekend and the building flooded.
13. The apartment above the gallery caught fire while we were conducting a workshop on making robotic blimps (unrelated).
14. An NEA panelist said what we did 'wasn’t art.'"
"Here are some things that have gone wrong with our various projects:
1. One public sound piece was misinterpreted as an emergency alert.
2. A Los Angeles granting agency rejected our proposal because we were 'too innovative to scale.'
3. We thought locking kids into the trunks of cars was a good idea.
4. A New York residency was canceled because the owners sold the building.
5. We organized a fundraising event around fondue on the hottest day of the year.
6. A public art series was canceled midway because of “questionable artistic quality.”
7. We tried to open a DIY drive-through frying restaurant.
8. A museum residency concluded early because they’d 'had enough.'
9. We heavily promoted an event where the performers ended up outnumbering the people that showed up.
10. We convinced a museum to produce a limited-edition print for our show. They sold three out of one hundred.
11. We opened a mobile performance that entailed driving around Los Angeles on the same day that a flaming tanker explosion closed down the freeway exchange mid-route.
12. Everyone left town for the weekend and the building flooded.
13. The apartment above the gallery caught fire while we were conducting a workshop on making robotic blimps (unrelated).
14. An NEA panelist said what we did 'wasn’t art.'"
excerpt from Machine Project THE PLATINUM COLLECTION
By MARK ALLEN, CHARLOTTE COTTON and RACHEL SELIGMAN
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