Category: stories

  • Copyright for Visual Artists : What you know about artist copyright is wrong.

    Copyright for Visual Artists : What you know about artist copyright is wrong.

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    The sad truth is that what your art professor, your artist friend, or some respectable art blog, has told you about visual artist copyright is probably extremely misleading. I’ve initiated two international copyright lawsuits against global conglomerates, and a key misunderstanding that most artists believe about copyright cost me over $100,000, probably more. If you’re…

  • How To Document Temporary Art?

    How To Document Temporary Art?

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    How do you document art that is site specific, only lasts a day, and is always on the move? Temporary public art – anything on the street- brings a host of challenges. More importantly, after years of shooting my work, and then working with professional photographers, I’ve come to believe most artists are going about…

  • How to Catch Pneumonia in Sydney

    How to Catch Pneumonia in Sydney

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    It felt like a magic windfall. It was my first real ‘booking.’ A curator in Sydney had seen RedBall and wanted to bring it to the other side of the world. This could be the beginning of everything but as the haze of excitement cleared I quickly realized they had 1,000 questions, real questions, and…

  • Oasis Magazine Interview – Beirut, Lebanon

    Oasis Magazine Interview – Beirut, Lebanon

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    Interview with Kurt Perschke for Oasis MagazineOasis Magazine Interviewer: Maha Majzoub Beirut, Lebanon Published Issue #20, Summer 2012 PDF of Full Article in Oasis -Having exhibited in the Middle East for the first time, in Abu Dhabi, did you feel reactions/interactions were somehow different from those in Europe/U.S.? Actually every city is different – you never…

  • PLOT Magazine Interview

    PLOT Magazine Interview

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    My Interview with PLOT Magazine March, 2015  (session 1/2) Kurt Perschke Interviewer: Janina Poesch Dipl.-Ing. (Architektur) Stuttgart PLOTmag.com Published in Issue #11, 2016 How did the Red Ball Project come about? What inspired you? Really it started with a specific site. I was offered an opportunity to develop an idea for one of three sites in St.…

  • Waiting to Get Arrested in Barcelona / how my career started

    Waiting to Get Arrested in Barcelona / how my career started

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    I took this photo while I was waiting to get arrested. We were installed illegally in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, just a few blocks away from the Guardia Civil, and my expat guide had told me we might not have much time. Spain’s Guardia weren’t cops, they were urban military dealing with Basque terrorists,…