I thought maybe the battery died.
I wonder if he rigged it to trigger with the sounds of a finished auction, or if that would be too much probably easier if he set it off remotely, but more problematic because he’d be destroying someone else’s art at that point, whereas if they bought a painting that was already rigged to destruct, that’s what they bought, even if they didn’t know it.
See #47. Seems that the shredded art was the final version, intended by the artist. Don't know the ramifications if the buyer would be angry, but if you're paying $1.4 million for this crap then you have money to burn and would be pleased that the value instantly jumped during the sale. A lot of speculating whether it was automatically set to shred, or whether someone remote triggered it. Either way, it appears it was set to shred only part way, otherwise it would all be useless scraps on the floor. I would not park my money in that kind of art, just wish I had that kind of money sitting around to frivolously spend.