Jordan Butcher, d.b.a. Strange Practice

Flat File

Deconstructing modern art through bootleg exhibition merchandise

Deconstructing modern art through bootleg exhibition merchandise

Launched during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Flat File deconstructs and bootlegs vintage art exhibition posters and imagines what a good museum merch program could be. It ended after only three releases due to cease and desist orders.

The project was featured in GQ, WSJ, and Gear Patrol.

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Ideas cannot be owned. They belong to whoever understands them. The piece takes a physical form and becomes an object. This object may be possessed. ‘A work of art,’ says Gertrude Stein, ‘is either priceless or worthless.’”


Sol LeWitt