FINANCIAL POP
Christopher Otto July 2002
Making artworks where the exchange of currency creates the art object and performance using appropriations from popular consumer culture.
Making artworks concerning transmission through the world financial networks.
The object created is the cancelled cheque and is suitable for collection and display as original artwork as it contains the artists signature on the rear of the piece. On the front the title will fill the memo area and the purchaser will fill in the correct price and sign. Upon completion of the transaction the cheque will arrive via the purchasers bank.
The performance will involve the filling out of the cheque and its resultant transmission through analog and digital networks. "Anti-performances" by other artists by bouncing cheques will not be considered interesting and will recieve litigation.
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TOP TEN MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS 2002
(title,cost)
Picasso Self-Portrait: Yo Picasso, $43,500,000
Picasso Nude in a Black Armchair, $45,102,500
Picasso Le reve, $48,402,500
Van Gogh Irises, $49,000,000
Picasso Woman Seated in a Garden, $49,500,000
Picasso Les Noces de Pierrette, $51,671,920
Cezanne Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher, and Bowl of Fruit, $60,500,000
Van Gogh Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe, $71,500,000
Renoir Au Moulin de la Galette, $78,100,000
Van Gogh Portrait of Dr. Gachet, $82,500,000
FINANCIAL POP ANTECEDENTS
Barthes assertion of money as possibly the ultimate simulacrum or floating signifier.
Baudrillard in _Seduction_ describing the role of seducing production in areas such as gambling.
FINANCIAL POP - EXCHANGE
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Type: discussion