"Auto-destructive art is primarily a form of public art for industrial societies.
Self-destructive painting, sculpture and construction is a total unity of idea, site, form, colour, method, and timing of the disintegrative process.
Auto-destructive art can be created with natural forces, traditional art techniques and technological techniques.
The amplified sound of the auto-destructive process can be an element of the total conception.
The artist may collaborate with scientists, engineers.
Self-destructive art can be machine produced and factory assembled.
Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a life time varying from a few moments to twenty years. When the disintegrative process is complete the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped."
Been looking at Gustav Metzger's work of auto-destructive art. It seems to be about protest and anger. His work spraying acid onto sheets of nylon was in protest to nuclear weapons. Similarly painting hydrochloric acid onto canvas was in protest against art dealers and collectors manipulating art for profit.
I'm interested in this aggression: the process of destroying something that is often perceived to be something that should be beautiful in protest against it.
I'd like to apply these ideas in my project. Destroying a myth that is often perceived to be beautiful and instead of being careful with it, as would normally be the case, destroy it.
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