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James Leonard - Costuming from Sky & Culture performance: gray suit hung on silver hook, situated to the left of a black briefcase which sits upon a shelf at sane height
James Leonard - Briefcase used during Sky & Culture performance, propped open to display paper ephemera
James Leonard - Paper ephemera from Sky & Culture, including sky subscription ledger and signed letter addressed to a subscriber
James Leonard - Detail image of business cards that read Sky & Culture Corp.
James Leonard - A typed and hand-edited script of the Sky & Culture anti-capitalist performance
James Leonard - Costuming from Sky & Culture performance: gray suit hung on silver hook, situated to the left of a black briefcase which sits upon a shelf at sane height
James Leonard - Briefcase used during Sky & Culture performance, propped open to display paper ephemera
James Leonard - Paper ephemera from Sky & Culture, including sky subscription ledger and signed letter addressed to a subscriber
James Leonard - Detail image of business cards that read Sky & Culture Corp.
James Leonard - A typed and hand-edited script of the Sky & Culture anti-capitalist performance

Sky & Culture

Ephemera & artifacts available

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1995

Door-to-door engagements
Artifacts and ephemera

A three month long campaign of playful anti-capitalist performances with collaborating artist Aaron Kuffner.

For this door-to-door performance, artists James Leonard and Aaron Kuffner adopted the identities of two struggling salesmen working for the fictitious company,The Sky & Culture Corporation.

The performance was a sales script. It emphasized the value of the non-commodifiable, as the two attempted to sell subscriptions of the sky overhead and membership plans to culture. The piece’s structure dictated that these offerings be made available as “non-financial transactions,” requiring an investment of time and engagement rather than money from each potential customer.

Legal permits to solicit door-to-door were acquired. After the three month performance, artifacts and the printed script were displayed to the public.