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SUPERFLEX. _Copy Light/Factory_. 2008. Manual, contract, and digital and printed images to create a lamp productions workshop, and thirteen fabricated lamps variable. The Museum of Modern Art. Fund for the Twenty-First Century.

SUPERFLEX. Copy Light/Factory. 2008

Manual, contract, and digital and printed images to create a lamp productions workshop, and thirteen fabricated lamps, variable. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2018 SUPERFLEX / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / COPY-DAN

CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: This installation by a Copenhagen-based collective named Superflex is called Copy Light/Factory and was realized in 2008.

GLENN LOWRY: One of the goals of Superflex is to organize projects that question existing social and economic systems or structures, in this case copyright laws. Curator Christophe Cherix.

CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: This installation consists of a workshop in which a series of iconic and heavily copyrighted lamp designs are re-fabricated by affixing photocopies of the design to a basic cubic lighting structure.

GLENN LOWRY: The resulting lanterns are fitted over a standard bulb and hung in the space. Visitors can participate in this workshop at select times throughout the run of the exhibition.

CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: What Superflex tried to do in the installation is to show that when you create a copy of a copy of an object, you create a new original without in any way going against the copyright protection related to an artwork.

[TRISHA DONNELLY AUDIO INTERVENTION]