massage

need to keep eye on Alex Kitnick (curator/writer)

from press release

"Today, massage parlors—mostly Chinese—fill up empty storefronts across New York. Set up like call centers, cheap partitions divide them into narrow spaces with just enough room for a table and a place to take off your shirt. Requiring little overhead, they provide a pure service industry, their costs reduced to rent and money to pay the masseuse. Artisanal in scale, what they sell is human touch, a resource made increasingly available by discrepancies in the social order."

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2011/04/massage-at-andrew-roth/