Mangiare denaro - un'asta (2005)

Eating Money - An Auction
A performance by Paul Griffiths and Cesare Pietroiusti.
Viafarini, Milan, June 21st, 2005.

A public auction is held. Participants make offers in amounts of money corresponding to the sum of two bank-notes in Euro. The minimum amount is therefore 10 Euros (the sum of the value of two 5 Euro bills) and the maximum is 1.000 Euros (the sum of two 500 Euro bills.)
The successful bidder with the highest offer gives the two bank-notes to the artists who eat them publicly and promise that, once evacuated, they will be returned to the bidder together with a certificate of authenticity.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• contemporary
• performance
• experimental
• paradox
• economy
• exchange
• currency
• auction
• money
• banknotes
• eating
• euro