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Money - no Funny
The Workshop of Cutting-off money and the exhibition.
Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, 2002
project: R. Dziadkiewicz & SAOZ
 This workshop project and exhibition was a reflection on the status of money
and economics in relation to social and cultural life. During 3 days of
workshops at the gallery, a group of participants worked individually
or collectively on pieces made from cutting bills. The process itself was illegal, since wasting. (i.e. defacing / destroying) money is prohibited in Poland. Straining the limits of legal/illegal activity it played with the dichotomy of destroying and creating.
The discussions inspired both by the work and around day-to-day
relationships with money were the most valuable outcome of the project.
There was a strong link to critic arts, crafts, anarchism and to manual work. This was particularly relevant considering that the project was executed in Lodz, a city designed in the nineteenth century for the textile industry as the country's centre for the textile trade. Currently Lodz one of the largest
and most neglected cities in Poland, and has the highest unemployment rate
in the country.
  
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