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.