Collection
Dan OlsonGlenn Alteen
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As a child, I was often told that every boy should have a collection. Somehow, I never became too excited about collecting stamps, baseball cards, coins, the usual offerings, leaving me at times feeling that I was not quite with it, but somehow I got by.
Years later, under the spell of the art of assemblage and collage, I fell into the habit of picking up bits of debris from the side of the road. Mostly scraps of paper and odd pieces of metal, things that fit into a certain aesthetic that was not at all unique, but every one operating in this mode had their own small stamp of personality. One day, I spotted and picked up an intriguing bit of metal, whose source and identity were a complete mystery to me. Bebore I knew it, these unidentified objects seemed to be always before my eyes, like coins in a dream of finding money. A short walk could easily yield up to a dozen. Intrigued, I began to collect them in earnest. I fashioned a collecting tool out of an old leather case from a folding sheet music stand, fitted it with a scrap of metal pipe, stenciled the word "COLLECTION" on it and I was in business. Aimless strolls suddenly became a kind of anonymous, unannounced performance art. The street becomes a studio, the junk of urban life the artist's materials, the case and collection elements of an installation piece, adaptable to any gallery or studio space: simply scatter the collection on the floor and suspend the case from the ceiling in the centre of the room.
January 16, 1996 to February 3, 1996
1996.0116 COL
ExhibitionInstallation
Binder 17B
This program has 55 archive items
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Collection Video - Dan Olson
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Exhibition Catalogue,
"Collection" Dan Olson
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