Concert by Kreuser/Cailleau
THE INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE is a visual and acoustic cleansing of all that dirty money!
THE INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE is an audio-visual performance machine / experimental analog DJ/VJ set by KREUSER/CAILLEAU. Using specially adapted turntables, Super8 projectors and feedback mixers, they present two perceptions of money: TOXIC and EXCHANGE.
In the Iron Age, Asia and Ancient Greece came up with the idea of using metal coins nearly at the same time. China invented paper money, which Marco Polo brought back to Europe. Immediately after Marco Polo left, China stopped using it. Paper money brought the phenomenon of inflation: the actual value of the currency does not match its face value. Europe invented capitalism. Under Nixon, the United States abandoned the gold standard to win the Vietnam War, which they lost, while incidentally laying the foundation for turbo-capitalism. Asia invented state capitalism.
When and how does a piece of paper or a work of art assume an exchange value? How is this value determined and how is it handled in practice? Even though we live in a globalized world and economy, we have different local histories, traditions, approaches and interpretations around the notion of exchange. The English word ‘exchange’ encapsulates a variety of meanings, which in German requires a whole set of different terms: swap, convert, trade in, replace. What they all have in common is a determined, or yet to be determined, relation to a certain value. How do we define this value, what is the exchange rate? What about value in artistic practice?
THE INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE is a visual and acoustic cleansing of all that dirty money! In Hanoi hosted by DomDom Hanoi and supported by Institut Français. - On tour: 2020 Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia.
Kreuser/Cailleau consists of Guillaume Cailleau, French experimental filmmaker, and Timo Kreuser, Berlin-based composer, performer, and noise artist. Their point of departure is non-artistic themes, objects, and contexts, which they transform into artistic added value. This performance explores the imagery and sounds of money.
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