Easy Office

In the documentary Brillo Box (3¢ Off), Andy Warhol, asked why he turned a common Brillo box into sculpture, casually responds “because it’s easy to do.” Appropriation yields an irony that is easily read but paradoxically difficult to attain without an alignment of particular social, economic, and cultural forces.

The studio investigated appropriation, misinterpretation, and abstraction as tools for a formal agenda in the adaptive reuse of a Culver City warehouse into an Easy Office. Everyday items, hunted and curated into a collection, are misread and enlarged into a versatile field that flickers between identifiable forms and fluid aggregations — temporary niches that small squads of concept artists and freelancers occupy by preference and continually reshuffle as projects proceed. Published as “Easy Office” in Within or Without, Actar D., 2020.