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Cash flow / "Wohlstand", lit. prosperity, wealth. Installation and durational performance

 

 

Meditation for minimum wage.

 

I pretend to work. You pretend to be paying me. Would you like to play along?

 

A legitimate-looking coin machine in public space. A person acting, and non-acting, governed by that machine and thus by the audience of passersby: Inserting coins sets the Standing Pillar in motion.

 

How does money shape public spaces? What is it that connects labour, money and (free) time? In order to work and consume in an ideal manner, would we have to be as dispassionate and permeable towards money as someone meditating is towards external stimuli?

 

Developed with Julia Żabowska.

 

 

Photos

 

near the Euro monument in Frankfurt

(Photo: Julia Żabowska)

the non-action on Paulsplatz in Frankfurt

(Photo: Juliane Kutter)

on Königsplatz in Kassel

(Photo: Katja Hergenhahn)

…in a Sparkasse bank in Marburg

(Photo: Katja Hergenhahn)

close-up of the machine

(Photo: Julia Żabowska)

 

 

Dates

 

28.4.2016, premiere, Festival der jungen Talente, Frankfurter Kunstverein

29.4.2016, Festival der jungen Talente, Frankfurter Kunstverein

(Willy-Brandt-Platz)

30.4.2016, Festival der jungen Talente, Frankfurter Kunstverein

(Paulsplatz)

1.5.2016, Festival der jungen Talente, Frankfurter Kunstverein

2.6.2016, Gießen, Löwengasse

4.6.2016, Gießen, Marktplatz

24.6.2017, Ludwigsplatz/Georg-Büchner-Platz Darmstadt (Staatstheater

Darmstadt, Hessische Theatertage)

29.9.2017, Kassel, Kulturhaus Dock4 (MADE-Festival)

30.9.2017, Kassel, Königsplatz (MADE-Festival)

28.10.2017, Schlitz, Landesmusikakademie Hessen (MADE-Festival)

3.11.2017, Marburg, Sparkasse Marburg-Biedenkopf (MADE-Festival)

3.11.2017, Marburg, MADE-Festivalzentrum

8.+9.9.2018, Gießen, Unterer Hardthof (ARThof 9)

ARThof 9