BIG SAUSAGE PIZZA

Big Sausage Pizza, 2008 (Stainless steel) 16 x 16 x 21 in40.6 x 40.6 x 53.3 cm Artist Proof Edition with foundry mark stamped on bottom   Exhibited during XVALA: Amusing Ourselves to Death at Mainsite Contemporary Art October 10th, 2008.   Have you ever had immortal pizza? Now you can.   You might be surprised how much XVALA's Big Sausage Pizza has to say, and that's just how XVALA wants it. The piece was born in 2007, just as the social internet was beginning to explode out of the digital back rooms and onto the world stage under the watchful eyes of Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, and other popular platforms. But Big Sausage Pizza was conceived well before that, in the Wild West days of the internet when few truly public forums existed and media of every kind was most commonly shared via email. In those days one never knew what to expect from a link or an attachment and each click had equal odds of either brightening your day with a dancing baby or posing a ris