Useful/Useless Diagram.
January 2010

This diagram outlines the Useful/Useless project, in which I surveyed strangers and friends in order to compile a list of Useful and Useless acts. Once the list was formed I used a typewriter to write 100 letters which cited an example of one Useful and Useless act. I then sent these letters anonymously to 50 friends and 50 strangers.

This project was installed from late January until mid March in a storefront in downtown Chicago as part of exhibition called ‘Usefulness.’

Useful/Useless Installed
Typerwritter, paper, envelopes, stamps, lamp, wooden desk, wooden chair.
2010

This project was installed from late January until mid March in a storefront in downtown Chicago as part of an exhibition called ‘Usefulness.’ Each day a dated letter and with a new Useful and Useless act was be displayed. At the end of the show all the letters were sent.

Useful/Useless Installed (detail)
Typerwritter, paper, envelopes, stamps, lamp, wooden desk, wooden chair.
2010

This project was installed from late January until mid March in a storefront in downtown Chicago as part of an exhibition called ‘Usefulness.’ Each day a dated letter and with a new Useful and Useless act was be displayed. At the end of the show all the letters were sent.

Example letter.

Example letter.

Example letter.

Example letter.

Example letter.