Vagabond Collection Agency: Auction Project by Seth Hoercher / NDFTBK
After receiving his MFA in New Genres from SFAI in 2006 and exhibiting as half of the SF-based art collective NDFTBK (with Ryan Hoercher), Hoercher relocated to Los Angeles to found/direct AM Project at the Treehouse Gallery, an artist run exhibition space (d. 2007). Vagabond Collection Agency is a practice in the cost of becoming free. Becoming 'on the road' or 'transportable', is a practice in perseverance and loss, as one obviously cannot take much of anything with you when you leave your life behind. Disengaging from his current life as he has been experiencing it, Hoercher has (within the past 2 weeks) quit his job, left his home, and catalogued all his art and ephemera from past performance projects to assist him on a voyage to Japan to refurnish his life as a living artist in 2010.
The project will take place as an online silent auction and a one night only silent in-house auction at MANIAC on Saturday, 2.20.10 from 7-11pm. Early preview can be seen at: http://www.sethhoercher.com, an online catalogue of Hoercher's work solo and with NDFTBK spanning time in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Hoercher, as half of the art collective NDFTBK, staged and produced numerous inclusionary performances that socially engaged the San Francisco art scene from 2004-2007, which included: Robbing the SFMOMA (with Dustin Fosnot) at Southern Exposure in 2004, Save The Youth of America (traveling project show across Europe), building cardboard houses in the Dogpatch for the homeless of San Francisco (Mobile Cardboard Neighborhood, 2003), as well as curating projects such as ‘All My Clothes for Sale or Free’ (Mission District, 2005), ‘Squirrels Night Out’ during First Thursdays in San Francisco and at the MFA Debate (California College for the Arts, 2005).
I first learned of NDFTBK in 2004. Hoercher's work, both Seth and Ryan, have always provided a level of attraction to me because their interest in lawlessness. For MANIAC's inaugural in the summer of 2008, I looked to NDFTBK to create something for Edit: The Uncertain States of America along side well-known artists like Chris Sollars and Mads Lynnerup, and ‘newer’ artists like Erin Allen and Taha Belal. Seth and Ryan had not been working as NDFTBK for a couple years prior, but again to my surprise, Seth and Ryan showed up in Oakland pretty disheveled and needing little more than thumbtacks.
Artist Statement
In their practice, NDFTBK has mapped out ways to 'train sharks to sniff out luxury goods on the sea's floor', plotted how to break into the SFMOMA to steal a piece of deemed high-value contemporary art, and built cardboard homes for for the homeless in San Francisco's Dog Patch. As NDFTBK is driven by any imposing limitations, they are known to scope out lack of opportunity and fill it with well-orchestrated actions leaving step-by-step documented plans behind. NDFTBK exists in experiment, their work remains as vividly laid out documentation of their plan of action.
Seth Hoercher holds an MFA in New Genres from SFAI (2006). NDFTBK (Seth and Ryan Hoercher) have shown widely including Southern Exposure (SF), Build Gallery (SF), ATA (SF) Treehouse Gallery (LA), and Unitard (LA).
The project will take place as an online silent auction and a one night only silent in-house auction at MANIAC on Saturday, 2.20.10 from 7-11pm. Early preview can be seen at: http://www.sethhoercher.com, an online catalogue of Hoercher's work solo and with NDFTBK spanning time in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Hoercher, as half of the art collective NDFTBK, staged and produced numerous inclusionary performances that socially engaged the San Francisco art scene from 2004-2007, which included: Robbing the SFMOMA (with Dustin Fosnot) at Southern Exposure in 2004, Save The Youth of America (traveling project show across Europe), building cardboard houses in the Dogpatch for the homeless of San Francisco (Mobile Cardboard Neighborhood, 2003), as well as curating projects such as ‘All My Clothes for Sale or Free’ (Mission District, 2005), ‘Squirrels Night Out’ during First Thursdays in San Francisco and at the MFA Debate (California College for the Arts, 2005).
I first learned of NDFTBK in 2004. Hoercher's work, both Seth and Ryan, have always provided a level of attraction to me because their interest in lawlessness. For MANIAC's inaugural in the summer of 2008, I looked to NDFTBK to create something for Edit: The Uncertain States of America along side well-known artists like Chris Sollars and Mads Lynnerup, and ‘newer’ artists like Erin Allen and Taha Belal. Seth and Ryan had not been working as NDFTBK for a couple years prior, but again to my surprise, Seth and Ryan showed up in Oakland pretty disheveled and needing little more than thumbtacks.
Artist Statement
In their practice, NDFTBK has mapped out ways to 'train sharks to sniff out luxury goods on the sea's floor', plotted how to break into the SFMOMA to steal a piece of deemed high-value contemporary art, and built cardboard homes for for the homeless in San Francisco's Dog Patch. As NDFTBK is driven by any imposing limitations, they are known to scope out lack of opportunity and fill it with well-orchestrated actions leaving step-by-step documented plans behind. NDFTBK exists in experiment, their work remains as vividly laid out documentation of their plan of action.
Seth Hoercher holds an MFA in New Genres from SFAI (2006). NDFTBK (Seth and Ryan Hoercher) have shown widely including Southern Exposure (SF), Build Gallery (SF), ATA (SF) Treehouse Gallery (LA), and Unitard (LA).
