Chris Kondek

(DE/USA)

The Financial Cocktail Club. Second Instance: The Virtual

Lokal im Mousonturm

Denken & Trinken/Lecture/Performance

As we learned in the first edition of the Financial Cocktail Club, whiskey sour is the drink of the day. By all means, hands off all East European, South American or even worse Greek liquors – much too instable economic climate! After a successful overhaul of the drink menu, video and performance artist Chris Kondek now invites you to attend the second edition of his stock market soap opera. This time it is about those dodgy promises that keep money and reality aligned. What is it about money that claims to be real? And how can virtual money in a very real way be made to disappear? As recently in the case of the online exchange market Mt GOX, which provided its customers with the sensational service of simply causing hundreds of millions of bitcoins to disappear into that sweet nothing, which had always been their only substance. But that is definitely not the only trick we have to help free ourselves from the burdens of money! PS: the first cocktail is on the house.
By and with Chris Kondek.