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Desk Trajectories (As Is)
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Date:
April 25 2010Subject Terms:
furniture; productivityIdentifier:
IA.ITM.001546Description
Photos of found images of used office desks for sale on the Internet"These desks, once the definite site of organization and productivity, now sit empty, dust, and cumbersome - as awkward in their photographic frame as they are in the space in which they are pcitured. Uncomfortably occupying the rectangular restrants of their offices (and subsequent picture planes) these giant abstract shapes don't fit nicely. The term As Is indicates a good bargain with perhaps some flaw, but taken here as an ontological statement, As Is points to a sort of existential anxiety: The desk's value, its reason for being, is hinged on its potential for facilitating productivity, and its form is a testament to ideologies of a clean, elegant modernist aesthetic. In these pictures, all efficiency, productivity and elegance is in question - the mere fact that they desk is out of commission, being sold, points to an attendant deflation of these values."
Book was printed at 125% ink density on newsprint by Linco Printing Inc, Long Island City, in an edition of 1000, on April 25 2010