Replica Spam and the Poetry of Karl Marx

Never mind that Murakami boutique at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA. You only have nine more days to buy a REPL1CA [W4TCH] from the Untitled Project Store, which goes dark on November 18. Regularly priced at $850, it can be yours for only $765! It's a beautiful painted three-dimensional object which, as the artist says, "is designed to occupy the physical and economic space of a REAL replica luxury watch!"

Naturally, the store is being promoted by replica spam. Today's is particularly apropos, I think, given what's going on in the commodity markets:

But, to avoid anticipating,
we will content ourselves here
with one more example relating to the commodity-form
itself. If commodities could speak, they would say this: our
use-value
may interest men, but it does not belong to us as objects. Our own
intercourse as commodities
proves it. We relate to each other merely as
exchange-values.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1, Section 4

All of this is a project of Conrad Bakker, an artist who loves to play with the detritus of our today's electronic existance: spam, eBay postcards, and the like. Often, the price of his work is the most important part of the work itself; the spam, of course, is free. Sign up for it yourself by sending an email to list@untitledprojects.com.