When all you are and all you do becomes your art, what do you do next? The story of a rising young conceptual / performance artist, making his way.

With the participation of:
artist Marina Abramovic, artist Vito Acconci, artist María José Arjona, Snitzer Gallery Co-Director Richard Arregui, Deputy Chairman of Christie's Americas Amy Cappellazzo, C-Monster.net, Wall Street Journal art reporter Kelly Crow, Bass Museum Director and Chief Curator Silvia Karman Cubiñá, New York Times reporter Susan Dominus, Whitney Biennial Curatorial Coordinator Stacey Goergen, artist Aramis Gutierrez, Bert's high school art teacher Marion Hanks and New World School of the Arts teacher Susan Banks, ARTnews Contributing Editor and Yale School of Art Senior Critic Steven Henry Madoff, clinical psychiatrist Dr. Scot McAfee, artist Manny Prieres, collector Andrew Reed, Art Production Fund Co-Founders Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal, New York Magazine Senior Art Critic Jerry Saltz, collectors Michael & Lisa Schweitzer, collector Nancy Seltzer, gallerist Fred Snitzer, and exit interviews among the "patients" of the "In the Beginning..." Whitney Biennial installation / performance

This film takes you behind the scenes in the timeline of a successful young Miami conceptual artist, from his "Clearance Sale" of a lifetime's work at ArtLA, to weeks of therapy at the Whitney Biennial, to a near-death head injury on Biscayne Boulevard and the new mindset that followed. Includes detailed on-site action at installations and performances, and spirited opinions about measuring the success and value of conceptual art.

This episode is scheduled to premiere Fall 2010.

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