Productivity

The RWC crew like to think they are pretty productive and so does Stefano Pasquini. Overwhelmed by the quantity of information and art that was surrounding him, Pasquini decided that in 2004 he would produce one artwork every day. Soon he found out that the "quick fix" of one work a day wasn't enough, and made more and more works every day, reaching 17 works in one day. At the end of the year, the count was 578 artworks that included paintings, sculptures, photographs, watercolors, videos, music pieces, performances and entire exhibitions. On a busy day he would just scribble a little note or drawing on a tiny piece of paper, or just shoot something with his digital camera and call it the artwork for the day. While the project was going on, he updated the list online on his website www.stefanopasquini.net, that now includes a page for each work produced. The implications for this project are of a philosophical nature: we're too many, and we produce too much. There are too many artists producing too much work, there's too much information, too much creativity: what can an artist do about it? One possible solution is to produce more than anyone else, implying that the opposite of quantity is not necessarily quality. The other solution was already tried by Maurizio Cattelan who asked collectors and galleries to sponsor that for a given year he would not produce any art. Of course the most complete solution was already found by Marcel Duchamp when he stated "there are no solutions, as there are no problems".

This video is a documentation of the 578 artworks that Stefano Pasquini made for Project 2004, and it was shown in Shangai on April 24th, 2008, as part of "Intrude: Art & Life 366"curated by Shen Qibin and Zendai Museum of Modern Art,Shanghai, China. Enjoy.