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FireSale©TM is a collaborative artwork and
incorporation involving the purchase, disassembly, distribution and reassembly
of a 9MM caliber firearm. The collaborative team of Colin Beatty and Craig
Smith has established a corporate entity in which gun part holders are part
owners / share holders in this corporate entity. The firearm has been
disassembled in to its 33 individual parts, and each part has been placed in a
unique custom fabricated gun case for safe transportation. Each case has been
mailed to one of 33 stakeholders.
If you have received a case containing one part of 33 parts of the
disassembled hand gun, you are a share holder in this enterprise. As a part
owner, you have rights to speak on the blog as a minority share holder. If you
have not already, as part owner, you will be receiving a call on your share, which
is the company’s request for you to surrender your stock, part, and all rights
related, sending the part back to the incorporation. The parts will be
collected in to a single location with the objective of reassembling the
firearm in to functioning condition.
It is the discretion of each share holder to determine if the
corporate objective, gun reassembly, is aligned with their own. And it is a collective response that is
required for all parts to be returned in order to produce the fully functioning
hand gun.
The purpose of this blog is to allow the 33 share holders to
dialog and communicate about the shared objectives and responsibilities in this
process and these 33 members are the only individuals with authorized access to
add comments or content to this blog.

FIRESALE HEATS UP


Parts are in flux, some having been stolen from the Miami Basel Scope art fair this week in a form of true appreciation, and others returned by gun part recipients including more vocal responses from Erik Prince, CEO of Blackwater / Xe contractors who asked that the gun be "reassembled –let’s light ‘em up." A list of the shareholders (redacted of names) is now available:


33 Parts will be mailed to share holders beginning 11-11-11

The 33 parts will be mailed to identified (but un-notified) share holders beginning Friday the 11th. The identified recipients are agents in art, press, academia, and business. If you receive one of the 33 parts, please feel free, as a primary share holder, to add comments, make new posts and / or participate in this blog as you see fit.

A list of the 33 share holders will be compiled under this blog as those holders confirm receipt.

If you are interested in being a shareholder in future "Gun Club FireSales" with exciting and bleeding edge weapons, please email gunclubfiresale@gmail.com

Sunday, October 21, 2012

FireSale ©TM at the Corcoran Gallery of Art



Craig Smith and Colin Beatty's FireSale ©TM was featured at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the exhibition "Manifest: Armed" (August 8-September 2, 2012) curated by Joseph Hale. Read Philip Kennicott's review of the exhibition here:




33 Unique Parts from a 9mm Firearm. On display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2012)
Craig Smith (Left) and Colin Beatty in discussion at the Corcoran Gallery. (August 2012)
Ghost Parts from a 9mm Firearm. On display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2012)
Corcoran College of Design student rendering of Smith and Beatty performing in the Corcoran's Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium. (August 30. 2012)

FireSale ©TM: 17 Unique Parts of a Patriot Ordinance Firearm. Artist's Book, Edition of 3.



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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

SMITHBEATTY FIRESALE2011 - SCOPE Miami



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Thursday, November 10, 2011

FireSale2011 9MM gun parts and images to be shown at SCOPE MIAMI Art Fair

Beatty and Smith will issue the share recall option on November 24th with the intention of attempting to reassemble the gun at the SCOPE art fair in Miami Florida beginning on November 31st. Cases housing the returned parts will be displayed as will photos of each part of the disassembled gun. In addition, the enterprise will manufacture "ghost" replicas for each piece not returned. These ghost parts will be on display along with the original parts returned.
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Parts will be mailed beginning on 11-11-11

The 33 parts will be mailed to identified (but un-notified) share holders beginning Friday the 11th.  The identified recipients are agents in art, press, academia, and business. 

If you receive one of the 33 parts, please feel free, as a primary share holder, to add comments, make new posts and / or participate in this blog as you see fit.
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Friday, October 28, 2011

FIRESALE 2011

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