Jimmie Durham
"The show [at the Venice Biennale, 2003] was curated by the artist Gabriel Orozco, with the instruction that we would attempt to make spontaneous and quotidian pieces, things with a strange common-ness. I found a piece of grey PVC pipe that had so much pigeon dung on it that it looked like a stalagmite formation.
I then placed it along with the sign, (...) “Please do not shit on this piece,” next to a work by another artist which had the warning, “Please do not sit on this piece.” My real work in the show was called Homage to Robert Filliou, so I called the joke piece Homage to Robert Filliou 2, because I thought it had something of the spirit of some of Filliou’s work." [full text here]