This is Unofficial Business

Wood, acrylic, and black matte vinyl, 24 x 49 in.

2019

This installation is a response to VCUarts’ recent placement of large “VCU yellow” bulletin boards beside the elevator on each floor of the Pollak Building. An accompanying memo states that all posters, announcements, and other “official business and forms of expression” should only be posted in these designated spots; ephemera posted elsewhere will be removed. I constructed a blunt sign, painted to match the hue of VCU’s, with text that questions the tenuousness of the arbitrary factors used to designate an object “official.” It also offers a public surface on which to post matters of unofficial and alternative business.