Serranading with Cher (Raymond Johnson Project) - performance (photo/video documentation)

The Raymond Johnson Project was a response to this historical event: “In November 1971, 34-year-old Raymond Johnson, a laborer installing Serra's Sculpture No. 3 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, was crushed to death when a two-ton steel plate toppled over on him. A subsequent lawsuit absolved the artist and museum of blame.” Wikipedia.

A series of interventions to try and understand Mr. Johnson’s death and how that event operates in the wider art market/industry sometimes referring to Serra’s work – although it is not important in this.

On the day he died, Cher’s song, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves was No. 1 in the hit parade. I imagined Mr. Johnson listening to that on the car radio as he drove to work that November morning in 1971.

I sang the song by the Fulcrum sculpture to lucky commuters.