ODD LOT is the attempt to sell a hole. The definition of property depends on the constitution of the country the property belongs to. In theory, the french Code Civil says that all space below and above a territory belongs to its owner. In Germany property stops at somewhere around 50 centimeters below the surface and its owner has easier access to exploitation of the space above the surface but doesn't have a right to it.
The talk starts with the demonstration of the size of the biggest and the smallest lot that Gordon Matta Clark bought from the City of New York in the seventies. I speak about the BHV in Paris and its capacity to sell the Noxema shaving foam at a price 10 times higher than the usual supermarket price and I show images of the 15 objects that mark the stations of Kyle McDonalds exchanges of objects that made him own a house rather than owning a paperclip. Soap changes it's form considerably when you treat it with microwaves. The objects I created in doing so were auctioned immediatly after their creation to demonstrate the act of acquisition. These preliminary stages lead to the description of the sculpture that is the centre of interest of this talk: A hole I dug out in 2010 in the vicinity of the village Les Arques, Lot, France. The hole is big enough to allow my arm to comfortably fit into it.