Digital Museum · Art Solutions Series · Documents 001–007

The Protocol
Rooms

Unmeasurable. Incalculable. Essential.

Seven issued documents in which Ryan Ellis Betz treats hygiene, the market, the body, prayer, and emission as a single medium. Daily practice is art material. The starving artist is recast as a financial trader. Value is left unresolved on purpose.

Two wings. Four daily practices, then a private financial protocol. Issued for artists who require capital. The chart is the canvas; the account is the work.

Enter at Document 001

Floor plan — two wings, seven rooms

Wing I · Daily practice

Wing II · Capital and issuance

Tongue

Sculptural removal. Clearing a clay-like film.

Paper

Residual matter as pigment distributed across a surface.

Sponge

Surface modulation and mark-making.

Aerosol

Aerosol application. Akin to spray paint.

Value remains unresolved.

Four practices. Required intensity. Then capital, cloud, candle, prayer, issued white. The body labors. The new world is the work.