

For our first workshop in Belgium (during a 3 weeks residency at AIR-Antwerpen), we worked in collaboration with different artists (Peter Puype, the students of the Royal academy of Art of Antwerpen) to prepare a printing happening for the opening of the Sergeï Bratkov's exhibition at the SMAK Museum of Gent.
The idea was to propose an artwork that would deal with the relation between art and money and the opening at the Smak was the perfect place to do it with a lot of visitors and as well... rich collectioners. So we asked to the people to give us their credit card in order to print over it with a gold ink some designs that we created specially for the occasion. The printing was for free and each participant received in exchange of the symbolic transaction a free silk-screened poster. It was quite amazing to see that most of the people just let their credit card for more than an hour and completely trusted us... After all we could just have been a bunch of crook-fake artist trying to rob them all!!
   
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