’Orgy of the rich’ protest-performance at Sotheby’s, London
(16 February 2011.) (Automated music & vid.) Now from an Art Design Publicity perspective, this is exactly one direction contemporary art should be going.
ADP magazine 3(1): Somewhere between “Fook off” and “KunstLeaks”
Published 19 February 2011
The Pretenders. Bad boys get spanked.
Wildly symbolic on the Art Design Publicity front, art protesters crashed a Sotheby’s auction just as Andy Warhol’s Nine Multicolored Marilyns was unveiled. The performance artists activated alarms, moaned loudly, threw fake £50 notes into the air— and displayed a Valentine-red banner with the phrase "Orgy of the rich".
As seen in the video above, an additional protest took place outside on New Bond Street, with perfomers staging a mock auction of public services.
The protester-performance artists belonged to Arts Against Cuts, UK Uncut and Space Hijackers. These groups are against the UK government’s plans for substantial cuts for funding the arts.
In the UK’s Evening Standard, art collector Mark Vanmoerkerke from Belgium was quoted as saying, “It’s fun to see people stand up for what they believe in. An orgy of the rich? They’re not exactly wrong.”
Works sold during the “Orgy of the rich” auction included those by David Hockney, Antony Gormley— and Chinese protest artist Ai Weiwei. The Andy Warhol piece was sold for £3.2 million.
To see the substantial media consumption and publicity outputs, click below— and don’t forget to search in different languages to see the impact of the performances in non-English media outlets. Did the performance activate wire services across the world?
>> Click to see the "Orgy of the rich" publicity outputs.
Also, check Google news and make sure to set your search to February 2011.
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