Radical Practices

Rocking Horse

The Rocking Horse activates the threshold between wonder and horror. To what lengths will we go to fulfill our desires. Rocking Horse, hand crafted taxidermied horse, tack, wood, braided rug.

Dimensions: 14x9x6

Buy Now Price: $50,000 

Lot #101

Eating Marcel by Charlie Milgrim

One dozen cookies and one Marcel Duchamp cookie cutter

Media: butter, flour, sugar, salt

Value: $125.00

Opening bid: $25.00

Opening bid: $25.00

Lot #102

Dust and Wax Portraits by Kit Rosenberg

Artist cleans patron’s home and creates a portrait of the patron from the dust collected (sealed in beeswax).

Value: $650

Opening bid: $275

Lot #104

The Perfect Dinner-Party Dining Dress by Elinor J.D. Diamond

Lot # 103

Clothes Preserved In Clay by Tessie Barrera-Scharaga

Clothes preserved in clay, never to be worn again.  Can memories be sealed and protected, petrified like fossils, or archeological relics?  Highest bidder will give a garment of his/her choosing to the artist to be transformed into a clay relic.  Inevitably, like memories, this unfired clay object will succumb to the winds of time. 

Value: $1200.00

Opening bid: $650.00

Lot #105

100 Dollars by Pete Ippel

One crispy one hundred dollar bill.

Value: $100.00

Opening bid: $5.00

Lot #106

A Temporary Rainbow by Charlot Hubler

The artist, via a proxy will come to your place of designation to produce a temporary rainbow using the most minimal of means possible.

Value: $200.00

Opening bid: $100.00

Lot #107

Eye-Con by Rebecca Goldfarb

Participate in Rebecca's ongoing photo practice of visual acuity and consciousness by lending an object of yours to the artist  from which she'll create a minimally visible image, a barely there, re-presentation of your object. Your object will hover in an in-between and infinite space, coming and going in awareness and presence.

Dimensions: 17" x 17"

Value: $1500.00

Opening bid: $750.00

Lot #201

Your Life in Neon by Charles Linder

Have a neon sign made of any maxim Charles Linder comes up with to describe your life.

Value: $6,000

Opening bid: $3,000

Lot # 202

Spoken-Word Ghost Stories by Kathrine Worel

Kathrine Worel works with objects, actions, space and time.  However, she also has extensive experience with the supernatural.  Her real-life scary stories are not for the faint of heart.  Winning bidder receives her story telling.  Date and time to be negotiated. 

Value: $300.00

Opening bid: $150.00

Lot #203

Directed Poem by Bill Berkson

Bill is offering a very special treat: a poem written by the highest bidder directly under his guidance. To be actualized in San Francisco.

Value: $1,000

Opening Bid: $500

Lot #301

Que Syrah Syrah, Duchamp Winery Tour by Kimberly Rowe

Take a special walk through the grounds of Duchamp Winery. Seeing it with fresh eyes, and finding new ways to experience the world.  Follow secret instructions that are yours alone created by the artist it is your own private journey made for you to savor your unique vision of the world.

Value: $400.00

Opening bid: $200.00

Lot #302

Artist: Jan Wurn

Blindfolded Chess Game by Jan Wurm (to occur directly after auction)

Four people at a time play Jan Wurm's son, an international chess master, while he is blindfolded.  Winning the bid reserves you a seat at the table against the master.

Value: $1000.00

Starting bid: $100.00

Lot #303

Petanque and Pastis Session by Paul Kos

Petanque and Pastis session in Golden Gate Park with Paul Kos.  This event will occur in April 2010 during which time Paul is exhibiting his pétonque related artwork and more at the Sonoma Art Museum. 

Value: $1000.00

Opening bid: $650.00

Lot # 304

An Interaction by Jennifer Locke

The winner of this bid receives an interaction/private collaborative performance to include any of the following activities (with which she has extensive experience): Wrestling match or lesson, BDSM session (bondage, flogging, role-playing, spanking, etc.) or a private collaborative performance piece.

Together you will discuss details and limitations until a mutually agreeable arrangement is made

Value: $450.00

Opening bid: $200.00

Lot #305

Anti-Pandora (#3 of 30) by Meredith Tromble

Anti-Pandora answers your questions.   Patron converses with the artist to generate a question, then gives the artist a time and a place to answer the question.  The artist (and her research team) will consult some of the greatest minds and sleuth your answer, writing it on paper and delivering it to you at your request through a special performance.

Value: $150.00

Opening bid: $75.00

Lot #306

Domesticate by Linda Ford and Pam Martin

Linda Ford and Pam Martin offer the performance Domesticate  for your function.

This entails the artists placing themselves in fetish restraints to perform the task of "pouring" in conjunction with the patron's catering service or special event. Date, limitations and details to be negotiated following purchase.

Value: $1000.00

Opening bid: $400.00

Lot #307

Caesar Salad Dinner and Oral History by Julio Morales

This image, a video still from Julio's film Interrupted Passage, is indicative of a facet of his work that looks at food and social history.  For this piece Julio will cook dinner for 4 (Caesar Salads of course) and give you the true oral history of the popular dish, which has been passed down to him from its creators.

Value: $1200.00

Opening bid: $600.00

Lot #308

Experiential Tour of Velocity Circus by Gregangelo

An experiential tour of Velocity Circus guided by Gregangelo Artistic Director for 2- 4 people. We add on from there if they would like to add cocktails, food, and entertainment by our novelty characters each is a separate price. Additional tour options available for a price.

Value: $2,000

Opening Bid: $175

Lot #309

Acclair Art Valuation Service AVS by Luther Thie

Employ Acclair to help you understand what you value.  Use the Acclair Neurocapital Engine to get a brain reading on you and your collection that includes an alternate way to value art parallel to the normal channel.  This means that you will have your brain scanned while looking at your art and thereby find out which pieces are most valued by your brain.  This is a useful tool if deciding which pieces to ensure if you need to choose just a few.

Value: $2000.00

Opening bid: $1000.00

Lot #310

I’m Here For You, To Be Your “Good Company” by Ray Beldner

Caring, empathic artist available to provide you with up to three hours of good company and companionship. Ray is well-educated, funny, reasonably well-read former professor, interested in all cultural activities and able to converse fairly intelligently on a variety of subjects.

Value: $800.00

Opening bid: $400.00

Lot #310

Phone Sex by Ginger Product

One hour phone sex fantasies Ginger Product is offering you a special one-on-one phone performance during which Ginger will be what you want her to be.

Value $150.00

Opening Bid: $35.00

Lot #401

A Week Stay and a Guided tour of Italian Art and Culture by Besty McCall and the Art Monestary of Umbria, Italy

Radical Practices and the Art Monastery Project will plan a trip for two through Italy's historic Umbrian countryside with accommodations in the Art Monastery Project in Calvi. Experience fine food and wine, and an unparalleled depth of cultural history.
(This price does not include food or airfare).

Value: $2500.00

Opening bid: $650.00

Lot #402

Justin Hoover

An Auction of Your Own by Radical Practices

Winner receives the ephemera from this piece and the right to have Radical Practices recreate a similar auction at your discretion. Patron pays for any additional expenses such as infrastructure rental or artwork transportation.

Value $4000.00

Opening Bid: $1200.00