Portrait of an artist...
In "Brain Trust," Jonathon Keats adopted the process involved with buying shares of a company's stock. Keats offered futures contracts for shares of his brain to be exercised upon his death, at the bargain rate price of ten dollars per one million neurons. The complicated process draws attention to the procedure itself rather than what the process apparently seeks to accomplish.
Keats's latest work attempts to determine what God's DNA might look by discovering whether it is closer to that of a fruit fly or blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). With the assistance of Smithsonian zoologist Mark Moffett and Berkeley geneticist Tom Cline, Keats assembled three groups of each species and exposed them to continuous tape loops of prayers from the three major monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Keats also established a control group that was exposed to recordings of talk radio.
In 2001, he attempted to pass Aristotle's law of identity, A=A, as a ballot measure in the city of Berkeley. It would have been, he noted at the time, the first law that could not be broken. It did not pass.
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