May 26, 2012

whitneymuseum:

John Kelsey, Depesrsion, Impoetnce, 2012. 

Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages. 

Bottom right photograph by Tyko

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