Institute for Infinitely Small Things  Born 2004, USA Active in
Boston, MA   At once a promotional ad and a speculative
performance, Transferring Patriotism is the trailer or
placeholder for an exchange in which the artists would—for the
cost of their travel expenses—travel to a buyer’s home country
and sell their patriotism. The transaction has precise terms and
must occur over a table evenly riding the border between the
buyers’ nation and the territory of the local American Embassy,
around which the respective parties would first sit and consume
an American beer. The terms of this contract recall the
patriotism-stoking genre of American Westerns in which
contention over frontiers entrenched imperialist fantasies.
Transferring Patriotism 2008, ongoing  Transferring Patriotism