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Walead Beshty

24-inch Copper (FedEx® Large Kraft Box ©2008 FEDEX 330510 REV 6/08 GP), Standard Overnight, Los Angeles-New York trk#798442758011, March 3-4, 2010. . .

Maker

Walead Beshty (American, b. 1976)

Title

24-inch Copper (FedEx® Large Kraft Box ©2008 FEDEX 330510 REV 6/08 GP), Standard Overnight, Los Angeles-New York trk#798442758011, March 3-4, 2010. . .

Year

2010

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

61 x 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 x 24 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of David Hoberman

Object Number

2015.125

Type

Publications

Articles

The Rejection of Closure

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

FedEx owns the rights to the logo and the design of the box but they also own the right to that volume of space. Other express-mail companies such as DHL or UPS can’t produce a box of the same dimension because there’s something called an SSCC code, which is independent of the design of the box, and which is a kind of proprietary code for that volume of space. So FedEx not only owns the design of the box, but also owns this volume of space and that to me seemed a very perverse form of serial, modular unit -the idea that a unit of space could be owned and could be intellectual property. -Walead Beshty

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Tombstone

Walead Beshty (American, b. 1976)
24-inch Copper (FedEx® Large Kraft Box ©2008 FEDEX 330510 REV 6/08 GP), Standard Overnight, Los Angeles-New York trk#798442758011, March 3-4, 2010. . ., 2010
Polished copper, accrued FedEx shipping and tracking labels
61 x 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 x 24 inches)
Gift of David Hoberman 2015.125

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