Conzept Kiosk: Day 6: Wednesday, 10 October

No kiosk attempted, due to trip off the island. In the evening, sign was sanded and repainted green. Peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips were made. Result: satisfactory. Plan for tomorrow is to put kiosk out early, so as not to use entire morning for baking. It is true that the cookies will not be warm when sold, as others are, but the particular flavor at hand tends to taste better the day after baking. Apparently, the woman with the baby carriage (frequent customer) inquired about cookies during the day and thought that the Finnish neighbor was behind the project.

GOAL

TO INVESTIGATE an alternative mode of exchange and distribution, one in which there is an implicit sense of trust that goes beyond the unsaid but all too present sense of obedience and fear of manipulation that we all have experienced as a buyer and a seller. In our urban culture, we are often taken aback by generosity, even when it is sincerely offered, and regard it as suspect. In Concept Kiosk, however, there is a moment of sharing, of uninhibited exchange. My goods are vulnerable to the perusal of the "customer," but the leaving of money is an acknowledgement of the value of my public offering. This subtle shift in the traditional model of consumerism posits the consumer as an active participant in a dialectical artistic exchange.

Conzept Kiosk

Day 6: Wednesday, 10 October

GOAL

Kökar, Finland 2007

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