Stretch Your Euro Paycheck – Heading to Helsinki, Finland

This week I made a new large stretchable  image for my Stretch Your Paycheck interactive performance.  The new money image is a Euro paycheck that features a 100 Euro bill.

I am heading to Helsinki this weekend for Camp Pixelache, a festival/conference event where I will be presenting my work, and also plan to invite others to stretch their paycheck. The event focuses on the main theme of “DIWO” – or Do It With Others – and I am interested to see how stretching the Euro translates and is received and interpreted.  This year, the Euro has been critiqued and discussed, and it will be interesting to see what meaning the piece has to others.  There are others coming to the festival from Spain, England, France, Finland, Sweden, Hungary and other countries – so it will be interesting to see what money slogans and sayings other countries have.

Stretch Your Paycheck is a interactive performance where individuals are invited to stretch a large latex image of money, get their picture taken that they can later download as a souvenir picture online.  The pictures can be saved or sent to a bill collector, Senator, or your boss.

Links:

http://stretchpaycheck.tumblr.com/

 

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