John D. Freyer is an American artist who teaches Photography & Film at

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Projects

In 2002, Freyer auctioned everything he owned for $6000 on eBay.

Audio

''Audio Postcards'' (2004–2005) was produced for

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and included such postcards as "On the Spin Cycle for Iowa's Ragbrai Race", "Iowa City Auction", and "Driven to Demolish".

Film and video

''Second Hand Stories'' (2003) was a travel collaboration with Christopher Wilcha of interviewing collectors, sellers, and bystanders of bought and sold objects.

Photography

''Opening the Flatpack'', co-organized by Freyer and anthropologist Johan Lindquist (Stockholm University) in collaboration with design and architecture firm Uglycute, investigated and developed methods for approaching

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's Billy bookcase as a site of conceptual concern.

Sculpture

''Walm-Art'' (2005) was a fully functional "museum store" inside an art gallery that sold objects from a local

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Publications

*''All My Life For Sale''. Bloomsbury, 2002. .

Personal life

, Freyer was married to Sasha Waters Freyer and they have two children.

Exhibitions

*''Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce'',

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, Syracuse, New York, September 2005 – February 2006. Includes work from AllMyLifeForSale.Com, Walm-Art.Com, Surplus and Big Boy.https://everson.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Aftermarket_Lessons.pdf

References

External links

* Living people Virginia Commonwealth University faculty American artists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-artist-stub