The maverick contemporary artist talks us through EXCHANGE, his recent 24-hour performance installation in Paris that parodied global trade systems.
, and how they were really into games as ways of understanding interactions. Just like 1968, this is a time of revolution — it may be a bloodless revolution, but maybe this time, we'll win. It's clear that we're in the middle of something — even if we’re not sure what that is exactly. But what we do know is that the blockchain is real. It's trustless, which means that everyone can trust it. The information is stored on 1000s of computers, so you can't really corrupt it.
Will the banks and the [US] Securities and Exchanges Commission get together to try and take it out of our lives? I think they're going to try. But this is a war being fought on the battlefield of ideals, and the best thing that I can do as an individual is to do what I do best, which is to make compelling sculptures and performances. “Art=Capital,” assaid, and that doesn't necessarily mean money — it means power and influence.
In your most optimistic mindset, what do you think can really come of inviting people into a space like this to engage with these ideas firsthand? Well, when we did the Swiss Passport Office back in 2018, where we made the most authentic Swiss passports that we could for €20, the idea was to make the world the way we want it to be. We took the most prestigious passport, arguably, and made it available to everyone. It was about highlighting that borders, like money, are an artificial construct used by governments, and the corporations that control them, to organise people, usually for profit.
What I hoped to do here is to create an environment in which the notion of trade is laid bare — which is hard to do, because we get so caught up in our everyday lives that it's difficult to reflect on it — and make people understand that it's a game within whichhave power and agency, whoever you are. We all have an opportunity within it, and I live by that. I was saved from a miserable life of drudgery through my art.
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