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C.R.A.S.H Culture
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Artsadmin
Two Degrees Festival 2009
C.R.A.S.H Culture was eight Postcapitalist interventions which transformed lunchtime in the City of London, developed with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination for the Two Degrees Festival, Artsadmin 2009
C.R.A.S.H Culture included works by:
WHAT NEXT? ANONYMOUS , REBECCA BAINART, ENRICO CENTONZE, DAVID FRYER, FEM ADLIBKOLEKTIV, KENARD PHILLIPPS, NON-SPECIALIST, QUANTITATIVE TEASING & ANKE TROJAN
Eight Postcapitalist interventions transform lunchtime in the City of London...
A lone cyclist pedals a converted field kitchen to all points of the compass
searching for wild food she can forage and share in the square mile.
Severed heads of bankers line the once busy London Bridge.
A soup kitchen dishes out bowls of soup made with real gold to City
workers who are invited to discover what it feels like to be of real value.
A meeting for the City Charter of Capitalists Anonymous invites
participation from bankers, ex-bankers, climate activists and other
interested parties to ‘confess their capitalist tendencies’.
A prolific family business closes down after centuries of trade. Mark-it
& Sons’ final closing down sale is the very last opportunity to purchase a
real woman in the bargain bins of yesterday’s boom time.
The Café of Equivalent$ exchanges a bowl of food for the equivalent price
it costs in the developing world that produced it.
A youthful convergence play at the edges of transition, teasing the
establishment for clinging to their old ways.
A roaming tribe build radio transmitters and receivers from junk in an
attempt to re-establish communication with the world outside...
Severed Heads by David Fryer
Continuing the English tradition of displaying severed heads of traitors on London Bridge, David Fryer created effigies made from clay, wax, hair, and the severed necks of sheep which were impaled on steel spikes. The heads represented bankers from RBS and HBOS who made their apologies to the select committee, Lord Stevenson, Sir Tom McKillop, Andy Hornby, Sir Fred Goodwin. The heads as is traditional were covered with tar to preserve them.
G is for Gluttony by Rebecca Beinart
Rebecca Beinart spent four days traversing the City with a mobile kitchen on a bike trailer, cooking foraged food from the urban wilds. She searched for edible plants as she followed circuitous routes around the square mile, asking how far you need to go from the financial district to find life. G is for Gluttony played with notions of greed and abundance, revealing how one of the financially richest areas in the world could be one of the poorest in terms of the sustenance it provides.
BANKSPEAK by What Next? Anonymous
BANKSPEAK was the ‘City chapter of Capitalists Anonymous’, a fellowship of bankers, ex-bankers, climate activists, artists, service industry workers and other interested parties who attended a one hour lunchtime session at a city location and were given the opportunity to “confess their capitalist tendencies” to the group in a closed supportive environment.
BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free) by FemAdLib Kolektiv
BOGOF was the closing down sale of Mark-It & Sons, a capitalist venture that had been trading women for centuries. Real women were stacked on shelves and in basement bargain bins. The shop included all models fit for commodification within the patriarchal system: most fully exploitable inside and outside the home. This buy-one-get-one-free closing down sale marked the end of capitalism and the beginning of a post-capitalist world where no-one can be bought and value doesn't have a £ sign on its head.
Rabbithole radio by Daniel Jenatsch and Anja Kanngieser
Imagining a time in the future where centralised channels of information and communication have been cut, Rabbithole Radio taught participants how to build and use their own simple FM micro radio transmitter, AM transmitter and AM receiver out of everyday materials.
Eat Gold by Enrico Centonze and Anke Trojan
Throughout the Square Mile, the artists stopped at significant banks, buildings and institutions associated with the financial crash, giving away free soup with 23 Carat gold inside and inviting City workers to discover what it feels like to be of “real value”. As they travelled they asked: What feelings towards our economical system are being expressed by eating gold? How does eating gold make you feel? Do you feel you are of more value? What do you value?
A Benchmark in Post-Capitalism by Quantitive Teasing
A Benchmark in Post-Capitalism was a series of 13 brass plaques attached to benches across London's financial district. The group of emerging artists continues to work with Artsadmin on future projects.
The Cafe of Equivalent$ by Kennardphillipps
"Dirty rag, Financial Times wraps up cobs of corn, freshly cooked, sweet to taste at only £100 a cob." Why? City workers on their lunch break found the Cafe of Equivalent$ installed in Leadenhall Market shoring up some simple truth derivatives equating their salaried/bonus income with the cost of lunch for a low paid worker in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mozambique, Brazil. Lunch in Mozambique for a worker earning $2 per day costs 20 cents , 10%daily wage - applied to average bonus earning banker corn on the cob from the Cafe of Equivalent$ costs £118.20.
LINK
http://www.labofii.net/experiments/crash
C.R.A.S.H Culture included works by:
WHAT NEXT? ANONYMOUS , REBECCA BAINART, ENRICO CENTONZE, DAVID FRYER, FEM ADLIBKOLEKTIV, KENARD PHILLIPPS, NON-SPECIALIST, QUANTITATIVE TEASING & ANKE TROJAN
Eight Postcapitalist interventions transform lunchtime in the City of London...
A lone cyclist pedals a converted field kitchen to all points of the compass
searching for wild food she can forage and share in the square mile.
Severed heads of bankers line the once busy London Bridge.
A soup kitchen dishes out bowls of soup made with real gold to City
workers who are invited to discover what it feels like to be of real value.
A meeting for the City Charter of Capitalists Anonymous invites
participation from bankers, ex-bankers, climate activists and other
interested parties to ‘confess their capitalist tendencies’.
A prolific family business closes down after centuries of trade. Mark-it
& Sons’ final closing down sale is the very last opportunity to purchase a
real woman in the bargain bins of yesterday’s boom time.
The Café of Equivalent$ exchanges a bowl of food for the equivalent price
it costs in the developing world that produced it.
A youthful convergence play at the edges of transition, teasing the
establishment for clinging to their old ways.
A roaming tribe build radio transmitters and receivers from junk in an
attempt to re-establish communication with the world outside...
Severed Heads by David Fryer
Continuing the English tradition of displaying severed heads of traitors on London Bridge, David Fryer created effigies made from clay, wax, hair, and the severed necks of sheep which were impaled on steel spikes. The heads represented bankers from RBS and HBOS who made their apologies to the select committee, Lord Stevenson, Sir Tom McKillop, Andy Hornby, Sir Fred Goodwin. The heads as is traditional were covered with tar to preserve them.
G is for Gluttony by Rebecca Beinart
Rebecca Beinart spent four days traversing the City with a mobile kitchen on a bike trailer, cooking foraged food from the urban wilds. She searched for edible plants as she followed circuitous routes around the square mile, asking how far you need to go from the financial district to find life. G is for Gluttony played with notions of greed and abundance, revealing how one of the financially richest areas in the world could be one of the poorest in terms of the sustenance it provides.
BANKSPEAK by What Next? Anonymous
BANKSPEAK was the ‘City chapter of Capitalists Anonymous’, a fellowship of bankers, ex-bankers, climate activists, artists, service industry workers and other interested parties who attended a one hour lunchtime session at a city location and were given the opportunity to “confess their capitalist tendencies” to the group in a closed supportive environment.
BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free) by FemAdLib Kolektiv
BOGOF was the closing down sale of Mark-It & Sons, a capitalist venture that had been trading women for centuries. Real women were stacked on shelves and in basement bargain bins. The shop included all models fit for commodification within the patriarchal system: most fully exploitable inside and outside the home. This buy-one-get-one-free closing down sale marked the end of capitalism and the beginning of a post-capitalist world where no-one can be bought and value doesn't have a £ sign on its head.
Rabbithole radio by Daniel Jenatsch and Anja Kanngieser
Imagining a time in the future where centralised channels of information and communication have been cut, Rabbithole Radio taught participants how to build and use their own simple FM micro radio transmitter, AM transmitter and AM receiver out of everyday materials.
Eat Gold by Enrico Centonze and Anke Trojan
Throughout the Square Mile, the artists stopped at significant banks, buildings and institutions associated with the financial crash, giving away free soup with 23 Carat gold inside and inviting City workers to discover what it feels like to be of “real value”. As they travelled they asked: What feelings towards our economical system are being expressed by eating gold? How does eating gold make you feel? Do you feel you are of more value? What do you value?
A Benchmark in Post-Capitalism by Quantitive Teasing
A Benchmark in Post-Capitalism was a series of 13 brass plaques attached to benches across London's financial district. The group of emerging artists continues to work with Artsadmin on future projects.
The Cafe of Equivalent$ by Kennardphillipps
"Dirty rag, Financial Times wraps up cobs of corn, freshly cooked, sweet to taste at only £100 a cob." Why? City workers on their lunch break found the Cafe of Equivalent$ installed in Leadenhall Market shoring up some simple truth derivatives equating their salaried/bonus income with the cost of lunch for a low paid worker in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mozambique, Brazil. Lunch in Mozambique for a worker earning $2 per day costs 20 cents , 10%daily wage - applied to average bonus earning banker corn on the cob from the Cafe of Equivalent$ costs £118.20.
LINK
http://www.labofii.net/experiments/crash
