Breath mints wrapped in foil printed with the following text:

Refresh Your Taste
with a
Free Biennial Souvenir
courtesy of
Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn

HOW TO LOCATE

Available in and near the Whitney Biennial. Look for them by the register, the coat check, the phones, in the bathrooms, cafeteria, as well as served by specially qualified appointees near the entrance, and at other surprise cultural locations like Printed Matter, DIA, etc.

Whitney address: 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn live and work in New York. They work together in various artist collaboratives publishing artist anthologies, producing public interventions and curating. They are founders of S.O.S. Int‚l., a publishing collective that creates public monuments in the form of books; produced several public art projects including a time capsule for Expo‚92, in Sevilla, Spain; and curated Disappearing Act, at Leslie Tonkonow and Bound & Unbound.

Robin Kahn is also a visual artist represented by Bill Maynes Gallery, New York. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. She is editor of Promotional Copy and Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists and recently curated To Market To Market at Rotunda Gallery, an exhibition by young artists who created marketing strategies to engage the public.

Kirby Gookin is an art historian, critic, curator and public artist. He is a writer for Artforum, and has written articles and reviews on 20th century art for Artscribe, Arts Magazine, Parkett as well as for gallery and museum publications. He is on the Board of Directors of White Columns, New York, and is a Professor at New York University teaching Critical Studies in the Department of Art and Art Professions. He is currently preparing a book on the aesthetic foundations of eugenic practices titled Eugenics and the Aesthetics of Ideal Beauty. He is a member of the Global Academy, an organization of scientists and ethicists who meet to discuss the cultural importance of emerging genetic technologies and produce conferences and forums to present their research. Transcripts of the most recent forum at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco can be viewed at: www.calacedmy.org/symposia/hghb.


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