Reenactment of Ant Farm’s Kidnapping Buckminster Fuller
- Julia Wallace & Nancy Douthey -
Dear Art Lies,
We are a couple of students in Andrea Grover’s Participation Art Class. Andrea Grover came to us with the task of creating something concerning Participation Art for your magazine. After much heated discussion the class finally “agreed” to create the images that Andrea has presumably sent you,
BUT
quite a few class members were not completely fulfilled by this endeavor and decided to use the energy and inspiration to create their own “Mocumentary” photo. What ensued was an amazing experience on the corner of Kirby and Westheimer.
Unbeknownst to the participants that were fulfilling our quest to recreate a typical Ant Farm prank (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9A04E1DA1239F936A15752C0A9629C8B63), we decided to hijack the mocumentation project. However, due to a lack of hacker skills we did not feel we could adequately dupe you into believing these photos are from Andrea.
In the spirit of collaboration, we hope you will consider adding this image along with (or instead of) the previous selection. Only with your participation can this participatory project be completed.
Sincerely,
Julia Wallace and Nancy Douthey
Re-enactment of Ant Farm’s Kidnapping Buckminster Fuller (1969) by Participation Art, University of Houston, 2007