Carl’s Jr. Drip

Los Angeles artist Annetta Kapon and Berlin artist Sabine Dehnel participated in a performance project organized by artist, Markus Tracy. The performance project involved both artists eating a Carl’s Jr. Hamburger on top of a sheet of primed poster board. It was fine with the drippings from their hamburger toppings (mayo, mustard, ketchup) would land anywhere on the poster board.

The performance was a parody of a Carl’s Jr. commercial which aired on television during the late 1990’s. The commercial was about construction workers eating a Carl’s Jr. Hamburger while on scaffolding. As each construction worker bit into their hamburger, their hamburger toppings also began to drip on plywood mimicking a kind of drip painting.

The Carl’s Jr. Drip performance was a kind of narration on authorship, authenticity, and originality throughout the history of action painting by artists: Hans Hofman, Francis Picabia, Max Erst, Jackson Pollock, and contemporaries like: Miles Regis, Stephanie Smiedt and Aaron Parazette.