Experimental analogue DJ/VJ set by KREUSER/CAILLEAU for prepared turntables, Super8 projectors and audio-devices
In their transdisciplinary project, artist duo KREUSER/CAILLEAU explore the imagery and sounds of money.
When and how does a piece of paper or an artwork acquire an exchange value? How is its value determined and put into practice? Although we live in a globalized world and economy, local history, traditions, approaches and interpretations of exchange are different. What can be summed up with „exchange“ in English requires many different words in German:
Austausch, Umtausch, Eintausch, Abtausch. What they all have in common is a given or to be determined relation to a value. How do we define that value, what’s the exchange rate? How does value look like in artistic practice?
Metal coinage was invented in the Iron Age almost simultaneously in Asia and ancient Greece. China invented paper money. Marco Polo brought it to Europe. China stopped using it right after Marco Polo left. It experienced the phenomena of inflation: the carrier of value isn’t materially worth the number printed on it. Europe invented capitalism. The United States (Nixon) abandoned the gold standard to win the Vietnam war, which they then lost, and accidentally laid the foundations for turbo-capitalism. Asia recently invented state-run capitalism. The Europeans called their revolutionary artistic experiments Avantgarde, and in China, Mao revolutionized the entire culture. John Cage used the I-Ching, Nam June Paik did Fluxus Art, Debussy copied Gamelan, Toru Takemitsu copied Debussy, Schönberg, Messiaen and John Cage.
The Interests Are At Stake is a visual and sonic cleansing of all that dirty money!
KREUSER/CAILLEAU is a duo project of German composer Timo Kreuser and French filmmaker Guillaume Cailleau. Their fetish is approaching objects as container of signifying function, generalized meaning and sociocultural contexts. By ignoring the primary features of things, and instead focusing on the potential of the object itself as sonic and visual stimulator, meaning gets moulded into new contexts and the original understanding of it is undermined.
With their latest project
The Interests Are At Stake they tour South East Asia in January and February 2020.
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