Regine January 22, 2007 design

One use only

Another project that deals with suicide: Nicolas Gaudron‘s electric bath duck for suicidal tendency.

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tal on January 22, 2007 at 1:31 pm

sad :(
what is your take on it?
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regine on January 22, 2007 at 1:51 pm

actually i wonder if my take is not totally overpowered by my childhood. my mum never recovered from the death of her idol: French singer Claude François who was accidentally electrocuted when he tried to fix a broken light bulb while standing in a filled bathtub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Francois
so yes, that’s sad but i’ve been raised among jokes on tv and radio about being electrocuted in your bathroom so part of my sensitivity might have rubbed off. the designer is french and he might have thought about claude françois while creating his piece.
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Mark on January 22, 2007 at 2:02 pm

This reminds me of this artist who made these double sided electrical cords and toxic candies as a very dangerous version of kids toys. I can’t exactly recall what his namen was again…
I’ll look it up.
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novaea on January 22, 2007 at 11:49 pm

Very fun, cynical like Duchamp white gentlemen’s urinal.
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PyD on January 23, 2007 at 7:14 pm

I see it more as a critic of the way most big companies try to protect themselves against potential lawsuits, overwarning their customers ; what I recalled (among other things…) from my very first visit to the States, were things such as impossible-to-remove-stickers on hair dryers saying : “don’t use in your bathtub”. I think I saw one day a microwave oven with a sticker that said “don’t put your cat into it and turn it on” – no, this sounds too much like an urban legend… So yes, I like the piece.
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stuff on January 23, 2007 at 7:32 pm

this is a picture of a duck in front of a wire. the picture makes it look like their connected, but their not. go out and actually build this damn thing, put it on the market, and when the FDA decides to slap a warning on it (despite its obvious danger) then you can call it art.
BTW, suicide isnt “very fun” and duchamps “fountain” isnt cynical untill you realize that he didnt bulid it.realize that. then think of how many times his “art” was “used” before he “created” it.
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novaea on January 23, 2007 at 11:53 pm

Humm humm, so this picture was just a joke, an illusion because there is no connection between the duck and the wire but you show us in the way there is a connection so it’s just like I used Photoshop to show you a picture, you’re saying : oh yeah wonderfull, and after I say : eh stupid guy, it’s just a photoshop manipulation. But it doesn’t matter let’s go on…
In fact your sentence : “then think of how many times his “art” was “used” before he “created” it is nosense, “non sense”, because this was not art before the artist made this action, before it was just a part of our every day life. It was just something for studies of Baudrillard “Le système des objets” but it was not something wich have a a symbolic, artistic value and what is giving a simple object a symbolic value is an action very special, an action in this case that pick out the object of the industrial process, an action that make this object wich was one of a million serie of fountain unique.
Maybe you can read Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”…
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susner on January 24, 2007 at 1:07 pm

MARK: maybe the artist you remember is Carsten Holler with his Kinderfalle
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afiler on January 25, 2007 at 6:42 pm

This reminds me of an electric daisy I once made.

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