The MoneyProject on facebook

The MoneyProject is now on facebook!

We haven't had a screening since last summer although a selection of Junction made MoneyProject video's were screened at the exhibit Capitalism and Culture in the Junction. There have been some new video's produced so a new screening is in order.

More info soon!

Montreal Screening

Despite the rain, our Montreal screening in Griffintown went very well. Around 10 people showed up with unbrella's and braved the summer drizzle. Unfortunately it made discussion very difficult as we were afraid that it might turn into a down pour any minute. We got through the whole program however, and received some positive feedback.

The MoneyProject will be screening again in Montreal at the Griffintown Cultural Corridor where there is located the Dalhousie outdoor installation space.

Saturday August 21 (rain date is the 22nd), 8:30 pm at the corner of Ottawa and Dalhousie.

DALHOUSIE

A Griffintown community initiative

In a cul-de-sac nestled between the CN viaduct and the New City Gas, DALHOUSIE is an outdoor space in which to celebrate all forms of expression. This is your invitation to participate in a continual series of events to take place at the corner of Dalhousie and Ottawa Streets across from Griffintown’s Jardin de Concertation et de Consultation.

Citizens are encouraged to participate in interactive works, installations, exhibits, musical events, spoken word, performances and workshops, expressions of arts and sculpture, opinions, lectures and ideas in an outdoor urban environment.

Information about scheduled events will be posted at http://griffintown.org/corridorculturel/

A Tshirt version

Signifying financial crisis.

THE BRAZEN SERPENT

Artist's Statement: Two signs both signifying exchange.
The idea came to me about two days before the G20 demo to take the two signs and juxtapose them into one. The dollar sign represents money as the medium of exchange. The crucifix represents the conjunction of unconscious sacrifice with the body as the ground of the value/semantic exchange. Sacrifice is a subset of exchange (as is substitution in the of case the making of an image). The work recourses the fundamental crisis point in the Mosaic Code of the making of the Brazen Serpent. It's working title is "nehush/nahash: Nehushtan". The three Hebrew letters Nun-Het-Shin could be read as nehush-brazen or nahash-serpent (The letter nun has the meaning of serpent in the ancient Hebrew semantics of the letter). The Mosaic Code was greatly concerned at its inception with the eradication of the semantic ground of the image still inherent in the vocable sign. Moses' creative inspiration was to make the serpent out of brass, fusing the medium with the message. Seeing it consciously was "sin" and salvation. Viewing it unconsciously caused death.
Nehushtan was the name given to the Brazen Serpent when it was worshipped during the time of King Hezekiah.
Money in the digital age has no real form. It exists only as an image of value in exchange. The word money has its root in the Latin monere, meaning warning.

Protesting the G8/20-- art by Michael Ricks

As you all know the Resist G8/20 week-end was a crazy circus of police repression. Everyone is now engaged in heated debate and there will be more fallout from the events to organize around. The police repression mirrors the economic repression of the G8/20 organization which does not represent the interests of people but sees us as mute fodder for their agenda. We see the nature of this system operating through discipline and threat of both economic penalty for an inability to conform to the capitalist regime of life behind which lies the threat of pure force for active dissent and desire to discuss and participate in the democratic process.

Junction resident Michael Ricks took this opportunity to make a symbolic gesture with this wonderful sculpture that we alternately carried at the Saturday rally. The response by our fellow protesters was overwhelming to this work, they were really able to work the symbolism into their understanding of what was going on.


This photo was taken by Nick Van der Graaf

New Blog items

I have added a link to China Labor Watch. As well there are two new pages: one is the talk I didn't quite get through at the People's Summit, and the other is a list and some descriptions of all the video's in the MoneyProject, which will eventually be complete.