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Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure
“Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds.”
0.0 / 10• 2011• 11m•NR• English
Documentary
Storyline
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
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“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Koki Tanaka's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
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“Every frame feels alive. Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
