Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure

Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure (2011)

Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-01-09
  • Runtime: 0h 11min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: The BOX Gallery
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Koki Tanaka

Summary

Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds. "I tried to bring something very extreme into the flea-market context. I picked the palm fronds because they are the most useless things in California – they’re what we have to sweep away after a windy day. It was an experiment in registering people’s reaction to a fundamental question about the value of objects. And I was referencing two historical pieces: David Hammons’s Bliz-aard Ball Sale [1983], where he sold snowballs during winter in New York; and a Japanese manga called Munou no Hito [A Worthless Person, 1985], in which the protagonist sells stones by the riverside – stones being sold alongside stones. So both shared quite similar ideas." - Koki Tanaka

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  • Koki Tanaka

    as Self
Camera Naotaka Hiro Camera Operator
Production Mara MacCarthy Coordinating Producer
Production Hilary Graves Coordinating Producer
Production Jason Underhill Coordinating Producer
Sound Taku Unami Sound Mixer
Directing Koki Tanaka Director

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