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W11006
26.03.2016
Monetarium - Amitesh Grover
WWW
What happens when we stop believing in money altogether? Monetarium is an urgent situation - An auction situation for the money. Let us think of this proposal as an invitation for an assembly - a curated, carefully selected group of people who are invited ...

What happens when we stop believing in money altogether? Monetarium is an urgent situation - An auction situation for the money. Let us think of this proposal as an invitation for an assembly - a curated, carefully selected group of people who are invited to a live auction situation, where attendees (audience) may perform the role of bidders, investors, competitors, graders, speculators, forecasters, observers. They may calculate, they may approach money-on-display as collectibles, they may decide to suspend faith in it. They are invited to create the possibility of a ‘transaction’ - What to do with this money? Who could become the ‘we’ being able to propose a different system? Can we examine the volatile nature of currency, and uncover the schematisations of faith, desires, deceit, corruption and fragility it governs?

What happens when we stop believing in money altogether? Monetarium is an urgent situation - An auction situation for the money. Let us think of this proposal as an invitation for an assembly - a curated, carefully selected group of people who are invited ...

What happens when we stop believing in money altogether? Monetarium is an urgent situation - An auction situation for the money. Let us think of this proposal as an invitation for an assembly - a curated, carefully selected group of people who are invited to a live auction situation, where attendees (audience) may perform the role of bidders, investors, competitors, graders, speculators, forecasters, observers. They may calculate, they may approach money-on-display as collectibles, they may decide to suspend faith in it. They are invited to create the possibility of a ‘transaction’ - What to do with this money? Who could become the ‘we’ being able to propose a different system? Can we examine the volatile nature of currency, and uncover the schematisations of faith, desires, deceit, corruption and fragility it governs?