Haaning told Danish radio at the time: “The work is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”
(Yes, I'm completing my own joke, what's it to ya? None of yall capitalized on the setup, so now it's my sacred duty and I'm not gonna sully it by sock-puppeting or editing my original post.)
At the time, Lasse Andersson, the director of the Kunsten Museum, told the Guardian: “We are not a wealthy museum. … We have to think carefully about how we spend our funds, and we don’t spend more than we can afford.”
Well done. Fight the system by committing fraud against a museum. So brave.
Okay, this is…. Funny, but it sounds like some of the money was meant to be used in the artwork (the commission was to recreate prior work that used money to represent incomes of people,)
I am a little surprised the court didn't tell him to give back the artist's fee too. 3,600 dollars to do nothing and fuck off without doing the work that he was paid to do.
"Haaning told Danish radio at the time: “The work is that I have taken their money. It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”"
I encourage other people who have working conditions as miserable as mine to do the same. If they’re sitting in some shitty job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it.