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Whenever I hear printmakers being all anal about working archival, my inner self cringes and yells out

GORDON MATTA-FUCKING-CLARK!

The guy was brilliant, made art that he knew would most probably be destroyed only weeks after completion and turned out to be as archival as all human beings.. 

So please, if you have a great idea, just go do it, and don’t go all “art history is the history of works that have survived throughout the centuries”. To illustrate, here’s three photos of Finnish printmaker Valtteri Halmetoja laying down some moody, absolutely unarchival tunes in an abandoned factory complex in Tampere, at 10:30pm. 

Further reading:

http://arttattler.com/archivemattaclark.html