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Originally Posted by Minimalist
Lol limit switch. Do you think that maybe in addition to being started remotely, the shredder could have been stopped remotely? Possibly even by the same person with the same remote!
Well... quite. We all basically remember how a TV remote works, I take it. What you switch on, you can switch off.
In its half-shredded form, mid-self-destruct, the installation is striking and highly exhibitable. If it were just ribbons on the floor and an empty frame, not so much. Which could cause those awkward legal complications, not only civil but possibly criminal (obtaining money by deception).
And also, who gets the money from the sale? Supposedly the work was donated to a friend of the artist, but I'm not sure a businessman like Banksy would contrive such a big business opportunity if he wasn't gaining from it. Maybe he's just happy with the (massive, intercontinental) publicity, but he's got to make a living, and he's got to make a pretty solid one to keep up his prestige.