Since May 31, 2009, Christin Lahr has been making daily money transfers of 1 cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt in small doses. In the field "reason for payment", she always writes 108 characters from "CAPITAL: A Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx. That way, bit by bit, the entire text of the book will be transferred into the state’s central account via online banking. The transmission of the roughly 15,709 cents and 1,696,500 characters will take about 43 years.

MACHT GESCHENKE, which inscribes itself irrevocably into accounts and archives, is a donation to the entire people, entered into the state budget, administered by the currently elected representatives, safely stored at the Bundesbank. Each of the money transfers is documented by Lahr by a screenshot, printed out once, signed, and given away to individual citizens.

Lahr will take over the chair of a leading figure (the mayor of Leuven Louis Tobback) to sit on it for the duration of the exhibition while continuing her work (writing, drawing, transferring money, working on images, discussing the project with the audience, ...).

exhibition The Social Contract - TU 14 Feb > TH 23 Feb 2012