American artist and educator
John D. Freyer is an American artist who teaches Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.[1][2]
Projects
In 2002, Freyer auctioned everything he owned for $6000 on eBay.[3][4]
Audio
Audio Postcards (2004–2005) was produced for National Public Radio and included such postcards as "On the Spin Cycle for Iowa's Ragbrai Race", "Iowa City Auction", and "Driven to Demolish".
Film and video
Second Hand Stories (2003) was a travel collaboration with Christopher Wilcha of interviewing collectors, sellers, and bystanders of bought and sold objects.
Photography
Opening the Flatpack, co-organized by Freyer and anthropologist Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) in collaboration with design and architecture firm Uglycute, investigated and developed methods for approaching IKEA's Billy bookcase as a site of conceptual concern.
Sculpture
Walm-Art (2005) was a fully functional "museum store" inside an art gallery that sold objects from a local Walmart.
Publications
Personal life
As of 2018[update], Freyer was married to Sasha Waters Freyer and they have two children.[6]
Exhibitions
- Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, September 2005 – February 2006. Includes work from AllMyLifeForSale.Com, Walm-Art.Com, Surplus and Big Boy.[7]
References
- ^ https://arts.vcu.edu/community/vcuarts-faculty-and-staff/directory/john-freyer/
- ^ Mirapaul, Matthew (5 February 2001). "ARTS ONLINE; A Market for Flotsam and Jetsam as Performance Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ Garfield, Simon (8 December 2002). "The man who sold his life for $6,000". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Man auctions off his life, sale price disappoints". Reuters. 29 June 2008. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Everything Must Go! A Life to the Highest Bidder". The New York Observer. 11 November 2002. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Personality: John D. Freyer". Richmond Free Press. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ https://everson.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Aftermarket_Lessons.pdf
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