GE1127 MONEY & ART

Decaying Money

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Motivation • Ithaca Hours shows the success of narrowing down the wealth gap

• Poverty problem in HKWhy Ithaca hours are unworkable in HK?Why the issues of poverty still exist in such a prosperous place?

What money is ?? What is the meaning of money to me and to the public??

MotivationTo the poor need money to improve their living standard become the slave of money and they are

controlled by money

Motivation

Motivation

Relationship between money and parasitic

property

REFERENCE • Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

Sources: http://www.ted.com/talks/jae_rhim_lee.html

ART WORK• Incubate Rhizopus nigricans (mold) on the surface of banknote

AIMS1. Human create money but now they manipulate us.

2. Money seeding on the thought of they are the most essential thing in our life.

3. We become the host of the money and they parasite our physical body and life

ARTWORK IN PROGRESS • TIME LASPE THE GROWTH OF FUNGI ON MONEY

• RECORD THE FEELING OF AUDIENCE AFTER WATCHING

• VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRBiOyYkylE&feature=youtu.be

After watching……• visually show the power of money in parsitic human's mind

• reflect the origin of money and your position to money

PLZ ENJOY

THANKS!!