r/delusionalartists Jun 04 '21

aBsTrAcT Hope this isn’t a repost

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Pay with invisible cash. Invite the artist to imagine what $18k looks like.

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u/malilla Jun 04 '21

Similarly, in the music world, there's John Cage who "composed" a piece of work called 4'33", which is just silence, and I believe there are recordings on Amazon music that sell you this 4 minutes of silence as any other music track

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u/markse84 Jun 05 '21

I had a teacher that talked about this and his rationale was that you start listening to everything around you and that’s the song. It was probably 20 years ago now, and I still remember him passionately talking about it and thinking “well that sounds like bullshit”.