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Museum of Forgery
About the project
In 1990, I founded the Museum of Forgery is a project in what is now known as institutional art, with the idea of examining the many taboos and shaky arguments surrounding forgeries and other kinds of copies in art. In 1993, the Museum moved onto the web. Although it has been dormant for several years, it was responsible in part for setting me on the path that has led to my current Fictive Art research project.
Examples of the Museum's activities include creating 'posthumous' projects for the oeuvres of dead artists; theorizing 'generics' as a post-Duchampian modality; and offering detailed instructions for do-it-yourself forgeries. I have created the majority of the Museum's projects myself, with the remainder having been commissioned from other artists for the Museum.
Publications
Below are links to two essays about the Museum:
"Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Forgery" (2002; PDF)
(or: link to nicely designed web version)
"Looting Gallery" by Katherine Nelson (1998; link)