2005, ORGANIC LIFE, „Frankly?”, Stary Browar, Poznań

BERGAMOT GROUP

ORGANIC LIFE

Performance
2005
3rd Polish-English exhibition „Frankly?”, Stary Browar Trade, Art and Business Center, Poznań, Poland

7 min

During the performance realized at the Old Brewery Art and Business Center, two participants stood facing each other and showered each other with coins taken from their own pockets. When their pockets were emptied, they silently walked away, leaving the audience to collect the coins from the floor. At first glance, this gesture may seem simple, but it raises important questions about the nature of value, the process of exchange, the role of the spectator, and the boundaries of art.

In this performance, the coins lose their utilitarian function: they are not handed over, but thrown — transforming from instruments of economic interaction into forms of weaponry, violence, struggle, and mutual depletion. This act shifts the familiar context of money and assigns it new meanings.