LMX_51 Archival Replica T-Shirt
THIS SHIRT IS AN ARCHIVAL REPLICA FIRST PRODUCED IN 1994 BY THE WFNL PRINTED BY SUPPORTERS IN NEW YORK INTERCEPTED AND INCINERATED BY CANADIAN CUSTOMS AT THE PORTHILL-RYKERTS UTAH CROSSING AND SUBSEQUENTLY BANNED VIA THE EMERGENCIES ACT DURING THE 1995 CRISIS LMX UNLIMITED DOES NOT CONDONE THE IMAGES OR SENTIMENTS ON THIS SHIRT AND HAS ESTABLISHED IN GOOD FAITH THAT NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO TRANSPORT OR SELL THIS ARCHIVAL REPLICA IN CANADA
In 2014 LMX Unlimited in its previous existence as an artist collective was commissioned to develop an exhibition at a well known Canadian contemporary art institution. Over the course of a year of research and production, serious friction developed between the group and a Canadian public arts bureaucracy regarding the content of the show. While much of that work is legally unsalvageable, LMX Unlimited, in its current iteration, has returned to the body of research and partially finished artworks to produce a series of products that explore the themes of the unfulfilled exhibition in a legally responsible manner vis-a-vis images that are technically owned by another state’s client institution.