three

3 

   "We are not trying to become any larger.  A metastasizing logic of the art world, capitalism, and life seems relentlessly invested in making things bigger, larger, more expensive, and more ambitious. Artists move from small galleries to large, organizational budgets show growth, sales numbers rise, ambitions swell, fundraisers raise more funds. What for? That a model’s validity is based on its capacity to scale up and eat the universe seems mindless. Every organism wants to live and spread out and reproduce, and yet the bigger you get, the less freedom you have to innovate and the more over head you have to maintain to stay alive. So the question for us isn’t how to get big, but what we can do that no one else can."

excerpt from Machine Project THE PLATINUM COLLECTION

By MARK ALLEN, CHARLOTTE COTTON and RACHEL SELIGMAN