Send us a textCover image: Ben Kinmont and the Antinomian Press at Section Seven Books, Paris, printing Project Series: Lee Lozano.For more information, please visit the websites for Antinomian Press, Ben Kinmont Bookseller, Ben Kinmont's projects and his gallery page.SHOW NOTES:0:00 artist / attorney collaboration3:30 initial art practice in NYC 3:50 work with antiquarian bookseller focused on medicine/science4:20 antiquarian bookselling business - Sometimes a nicer sculpture is to be able to provide a living for your family5:00 Occupational realism - term by Julia Bryant Wilson5:35 Kinmont’s practice included painting, video, sculpture, photography 5:50 NYC/Cologne street project I am for you, ich bin fur sie - 3 sculptures6:15 “The Social Sculpture” - Joseph Beuys6:40 ‘The Thinking Sculpture’ - William James 7:10 cognitive process as a sculptural process7:25 “The Third Sculpture”8:00 I Am For You 9:00 Christo’s public projects about conversations with farmers/coastal commission 10:35 The Materialization of Life Into Alternative Economies 11:45 Antinomian Press 14:40 economic precarity subtheme15:10 theme of art in everyday life, what we can and can’t call art16:00 Borders of what can and cannot be called art 17:45 NYU Draper Institute lecture to grad class of anthropology 19:00 cultural differences in interviewing NYC and Cologne individuals21:15 archives of his projects led to his interest in contracts and Promised Relations: or, thoughts on a few artists’ contracts? 24:20 Tilted Arc contract 24:30 Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ certificates25:30 Kinmont’s contract25:40 Attorney Jerry Ordover25:55 Seth Seigelab and Bob Projansky artist contract29:45 MoMA Department of Prints and Drawing’s purchase of Antinomian Press archive31:40 why artists shy from contracts36:45 circa 1990 - Trust as Sculpture – strangers invited to waffle breakfast in Kinmont’s home 38:15 understand history to create discourse around your experience40:00 feedback from An Exhibition In Your Mouth41:45 social/political meaning behind the study of gastronomy42:50 Inter-sectionality of gastronomy with women’s studies, economic history, ethnography, class, medicine, health44:40 Gastronomy and Economic Precarity45:50 FBI’s attacks on the Black Panther’s Free Breakfast Programs46:50 San Quintin death row inmate’s inquiry about publishing Death Row Cookbook48:50 his projects addressing injustice 50:25 Ethical Considerations in Project Art Practice 51:10 justice 51:50 2011 Carl Andre Killed His Wife Ana Mendieta53:00 Olivier Mosset bought and later returned it54:25 Andre’s involvement in Art Workers Coalition Group/work using proletariat materPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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