The Book of "100 Actions" page 121

TERRITORIAL LAND REGISTRY

Firstly, the territorial unit of measurement had to be decided upon and then laid down as the rule. This was accomplished after the Wise Men rapidly conferred together. The unit of measurement would be the square metre, taking into account the conventions that are proper to it. Obeying the rule, the square metre concerned was immediately christened "artistic square metre". This was intended to stress its specific nature and also to avoid all possibility of confusion with other names that sound similar, but differ radically in spirit...Especially since the christening ceremony took place in France a few hundred metres away from the Swiss frontier, at the place called " chez Mermier ".
The service occurred in the middle of a field of which plots had been handed over by a peasant to the " Artistic Square Metre Civil Estate Agents Society" for a few symbolic francs. In the newspaper "Le Monde" relevant reports appeared in all the editions between 10th March and 20th September 1977 in the finance sections; considering the repute of the newspaper, that just proved that art can very well appear in a financial column... But does this not lead one to reflect on the question of the actual status of art within a society that prizes mercantile values above all others?