Mickie Quick, BLACK & GOLD COUCH 2009 BLACK & GOLD COUCH is a dada artwork really. The surface of that particular kind of product packaging makes an unfathomable display piece in a home, not dissimilar to those rare, bizarre instances where the plastic wrapper is never removed from a new couch, even though it is used daily, in an attempt to preserve its newness forever. The “BLACK & GOLD” model of packaging suggests that you are being given all the information you need to know about the object, and yet describing the ‘is-ness’ of a couch in such flat basic terms only points to what is missing: the breadth of possible understandings of what the object can mean to us, of which perhaps there are so many that they can not be described. Mickie Quick has been doing ‘street art’ in a wide variety of forms since the early nineties, from liberating billboards to doing all sorts of public pranks. He has recently taken these pranks to a wider public as one of Channel Ten’s Guerilla Gardeners.

Mickie Quick, BLACK & GOLD COUCH 2009

BLACK & GOLD COUCH is a dada artwork really. The surface of that particular kind of product packaging makes an unfathomable display piece in a home, not dissimilar to those rare, bizarre instances where the plastic wrapper is never removed from a new couch, even though it is used daily, in an attempt to preserve its newness forever. The “BLACK & GOLD” model of packaging suggests that you are being given all the information you need to know about the object, and yet describing the ‘is-ness’ of a couch in such flat basic terms only points to what is missing: the breadth of possible understandings of what the object can mean to us, of which perhaps there are so many that they can not be described.

Mickie Quick has been doing ‘street art’ in a wide variety of forms since the early nineties, from liberating billboards to doing all sorts of public pranks. He has recently taken these pranks to a wider public as one of Channel Ten’s Guerilla Gardeners.

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