The Art of Making Money (version II)
2013
This performance was originally presented in an event organized by Alex Kovacs; Chats Palace, Londres, 2011.
A second version of the same performance was presented at the 17ª Biennial of Cerveira, 2013.
What about Filipa Guimarães?
At the Dismantled Cabaret Filipa performed a piece called "The Art of Making Money". Dressed in a dark business suit she placed a clay pot filled with soil on the floor of the stage and carefully "planted" a banknote in the soil, encouraging it with a sprinkling from a violet-coloured watering can. After lying down and watching the pot, waiting for some kind of miraculous growth to take place, she walked around the entirety of the audience, asking each person individually for money by making a silent begging gesture with her outstretched hand. This created quite a tense and charged atmosphere. Having been given some coins and a £10 banknote, she returned to the stage, carefully placed these new examples of money into the soil and again used her watering can to attempt to hasten their growth.
Alex Kovacs, excerpt from the text: "Alex Kovacs Interviews Himself about The Dismantled Cabaret"
Note:
Alex Kovacs is a british writer. His book The Currency of Paper is published by The Dalkey Archive Press, US.
The Dismantled Cabaret was an event of avant garde and experimental work of different kinds, within the domains of music, performance art and poetry.
2013
This performance was originally presented in an event organized by Alex Kovacs; Chats Palace, Londres, 2011.
A second version of the same performance was presented at the 17ª Biennial of Cerveira, 2013.
What about Filipa Guimarães?
At the Dismantled Cabaret Filipa performed a piece called "The Art of Making Money". Dressed in a dark business suit she placed a clay pot filled with soil on the floor of the stage and carefully "planted" a banknote in the soil, encouraging it with a sprinkling from a violet-coloured watering can. After lying down and watching the pot, waiting for some kind of miraculous growth to take place, she walked around the entirety of the audience, asking each person individually for money by making a silent begging gesture with her outstretched hand. This created quite a tense and charged atmosphere. Having been given some coins and a £10 banknote, she returned to the stage, carefully placed these new examples of money into the soil and again used her watering can to attempt to hasten their growth.
Alex Kovacs, excerpt from the text: "Alex Kovacs Interviews Himself about The Dismantled Cabaret"
Note:
Alex Kovacs is a british writer. His book The Currency of Paper is published by The Dalkey Archive Press, US.
The Dismantled Cabaret was an event of avant garde and experimental work of different kinds, within the domains of music, performance art and poetry.