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We have set ourselves a big task today:
We want to think about the historical relationship
between culture and economy
and the concepts of economy in other cultures.
The conomy is a cultural tool,
just as religion, science and arts are.
In short: We are at a turning point
and it is high time to bethink,
that we aren't passive objects
but subjects within our economical practice.
But there is still something else:
we can see this almost altar-shaped background installation
- even when we take it out of it's cultural context -
as something like a wishing-machine.
Like an aggregate of covetousness,
it represents the necessity of fulfilling
the ultimate consumer's desire for consumption,
because where ever there is a strong desire
there must be a fulfillment to keep it alive.
And that is one of the things,
the installation holds up:
it satisfies the consumer's endless greed
even after he is dead.
We sit before the utopias of everyday economy.
Here we have an installation of exclusive goods,
that only have this strong effect because they are exclusive
and not everybody can just get them
without doing something for them first.
This seems to be the most important thing
about the fascination of exclusive goods.
Maybe we could eradicate the greed just by stopping this
and making them more easily available
or giving them to everybody.
But maybe this is an utopia that would not work.
I am quite thrifty
and I want to save the capitalism by sparing.
That's why I put only this little thing into the fire.
Now I'm burning the microphone,
a voice
from China.