25.04. - 15.06.
screening at Lindenstrasse 35 Berlin,
daily, 8 – 10 pm

KwieKulik
Equivalent in Money, 1986, 6:16 min


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After KwieKulik had sent out the invitations, instead of the announced performance, Poetization of Pragmatics, they decided to create an action called Equivalent in Money. When the visitors arrived, in place of the artists they found Paweł Kwiek with a bundle of banknotes. He offered financial compensation for the ‘lack of art’. Everyone who came to the gallery received a fifty of hundred zloty note. The entire action, which sought to investigate real and symbolic economies, and the bestowed viewers response, was filmed by Zbigniew Libera. The Communal Trading Cooperative at Lomianki, where KwieKulik lived, provided the neighborhood with the coal for winter. Lacking coal in stock that year, the communal authorities paid out financial compensation to the inhabitants. A year later, KwieKulik performed Poetization of Pragmatics at Franklin Furnace in New York.