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Wager
project realized in a commercial gallery in Berlin, 2009

The artists bet that the gallery yields to business rather than fancies revolution.
The gallery wins the bet if the staff withstands living as a collective for the duration of the show while accomplishing the scenario proposed by the artists (see appendix).
The artists win the bet if the gallery, at any point of the duration of the show, decides to give up the suggested scenario and to return to usual modus operandi. As a consequence of it, the gallery can sell the artists themselves for one day, to whomever they want, for any kind of activity, for the price they want and keep all the money.


Appendix:

- feign a commune
- live together in the gallery
- do whatever you want as long as everyone can see you
- share everything
- be political
- free love
- drink a lot of alcohol
- dress code: army shop
- no tv
- no money
- steal
- don't get bored
- forget the pope
- be beautiful
- speak your mother language
- participate
- forget everything you've been taught
- when asked, answer with questions
- wear a che guevara t-shirt
- don't shave
- yell
- dream about abolishing class society
- write on walls
- brabble over revolution
- don't eat meat
- learn esperanto
- business forbidden
- produce no waste
- drugs
- exorcise your communist childhood
- read capital
- listen to a unknown leftist band
- invent pseudonymes (nomes de guerre)
- write a manifesto
- exercise telepathy
- try hard to look effortless

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