I have expanding more conceptually than thematically towards my project. First of all I have come to the idea that "art respond not the world we want but to the one we are living in". This clarification have become seminal in how I portray my artistic work. This means that I can create work that perceives a better world but that is related to the world in itself. This also come from others ideas I have been juggling with like the relationship between memory and imagination (research and creative impulse) and the concept of the artists labour as a medium of it's time. This finally force my work into become more of a confirmation of the world we leave in rather than a illusion of a better world. This have give more intensity to y idea of contrasting the slangs surrounding the term money. Here research matters as a factual representation of world, ideology and cultural behavior. The words I have found so far in the United States are:
- Bacon
- Bands
- Bank
- Bankrolls
- Benjamins
- Big bucks
- Bills
- Biscuits
- Bisquick
- Blue cheese
- Blue cheddar
- Bookoo bucks
- Bones
- Bread
- Brick
- Broccoli
- Buckaroos
- Bucks
- C-note
- Cabbage
- Cake
- Cash
- Cash money
- Cheese
- Cheddar
- Chits
- Chips
- Chump change
- Clams
- Coin
- CREAM
- Dead presidents
- Dinero
- Dime
- Doubloons
- Dough
- Fetti
- Five-Spots
- Fivers
- Franklins
- Frog
- Frog skins
- Gold
- Green
- Greenbacks
- Gs
- Grand
- Guac
- Gwop
- Guineas
- Half-yard
- Hundies
- Jacksons
- Knots
- Large
- Lincolns
- Long green
- Lolly
- Loots
- Lucci
- Lucre
- Mega bucks
- Monkey
- Moola
- Notes
- Nugget
- OPM
- Paper
- Payola
- Pesos
- Plunder
- Quid
- Rack
- Rock
- Roll
- Sawbuck
- Scratch
- Scrilla
- Shekels
- Singles
- Smackers
- Stacks
- Ten-spot
- Tenners
- Wad.
- Wonga
- Yard
I love that all this random words together create some sort of poem of concepts that can be both assimilated to money or presented as an alone random concept.
As I mentioned before the idea is to construct this portable energy device that allow me to move around the city with the minimum weight, arranging an electronic sign that shows one by one the words researched.
The idea is that the same electric device (a car battery doing alternate current) could produce small activities as sharing books and movies that you can't find in Cuba.
The impact of the work is that it create a community by looking back more than by looking forward, understanding through the cultural differences of both place how mutual agreement can be found. Also the same work creates a certain problematization around the power of words, on how books, concepts and they usage are deprived from a society or become unreachable for political purposes.
The project goals are both alienation (through the electric sign) and integration (through the different activities of technological "assitentialism" by conecting every day people with a piece of culture that can't be found. I am personally interested in printing copies of El Oscuro Pajaro de la Noche by Jose Donoso as it is a book that I feel super related lately and that expand the idea of agreement and the communication between to different cultures. I also though that I wanted something that could represent me as a Chilean more than as someone coming from the United States and this book can be the key to that. Finally I have been thinking about selling pirated videoart in the streets of Cuba. For this I plan to steal from different libraries (riping them into my computer) the vast information that exist in Los Angeles as an archive of moving images. My idea is to re-sell or give out a bunch of this video art that either don't have visibility because of audience interest or because of an idealogical embargo. I think I need to still explore this idea because I am not sure how in the edge of illegality my work would be.
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