where’s my fucking peanut, 2012 by Rachel Harrison

Triple Canopy is pleased to announce the publication of where’s my fucking peanut, a new limited edition created by artist Rachel Harrison. where’s my fucking peanut consists of twenty-six printed cards and thirty-two painted clothespins housed in a letter-pressed wooden case signed by Harrison. The text on the cards is scrawled in Sharpie and increasingly anxious in tone; each wonders about the whereabouts of a peanut allegedly stolen from an installation by the artist during an exhibition at the Right Bank, a Williamsburg bar, circa 1993. “Woe are peanutless days,” indeed.

Expanding upon an existing work included in Harrison’s traveling survey, “Consider the Lobster,” where’s my fucking peanut was conceived as the counterpart to her online project “Rump Steak with Onions,” following its publication in the fourteenth issue of Triple Canopy. The article melds several stories of art and theft; among images of American entertainment legend Johnny Carson and a game of computer solitaire gone haywire, a body of evidence emerges.

Rachel Harrison lives and works in New York. She has shown throughout the US and Europe; her work was recently included in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), the Tate Triennial (2009), and the Whitney Biennial (2002, 2008). Her traveling survey, “Consider the Lobster,” originated at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (2009), and traveled to the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010).

Special thanks to Carol Greene and Alexandra Tuttle for their support of this project. Additional thanks to Supreme Digital and Kelli Anderson for their expert printing services.