Money for Nothing

Money for Nothing

10 May - 29 June 2003

Money For Nothing uses artistic output to look at the relationship between people and economy; the way artist and art deals with value, economy, and the economic impacts on and of the art world.

The exhibition starts with small, more conceptual, works from the '60s like Andy Warhol’s Marilyn and Shopping Bag, Billy Apple's FOR SALE (1961), Robert Watts attempt to copyright POP (1965), or the '70s plaque by the English Pop artist Peter Blake. More recent works include Santiago Sierra who paid six men in Cuba USD30 each to stand in a row and get a line tattooed on their backs. Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas present a film in which the volunteer employees of the Lithuanian Saving Bank are singing the Abba classic Money, Money, Money the day before this last state owned bank is privatised.

Exhibiting Artists: Billy Apple, Andy Warhol, Robert Watts, Peter Blake, Santiago Sierra, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Kate Newby, Violet Faigan, Plamen Dejanov, Dane Mitchell, Larry Millar, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lauren Winstone, Eimi Tamua, Christian Jankowski, Andrew McLeod, David Hatcher and Seth Siegelaub.

Money For Nothing is an ARTSPACE, Auckland touring exhibition.