El Gato con Moscas
One euro for one cent
, 2009
Performance, el Rastro, Madrid.
On Sunday the 12th of July 2009, we installed a stall in the Rastro market in Madrid in which we aimed to sell euros for cents. It took us 1 hour and 20 minutes to sell 20 euros. In the context of an economic crisis, we opened a discussion about the relationship between subject and object generated by consumer society. By transforming the seller’s intentions, we alter the buyer’s intentions, in a business in which who truly wins is the one who buys..
(Quoted from the artists website)
Contribution Claudia Claremi

Francis Alÿs
The Art of Working and the Work of Art, 2010
Performance, México, D.F.
Contribution Claudia Claremi

Lee Mingwei
Money for Art, 1994
Performance
San Francisco, USA

‘As you can see, it’s a ten-dollar bill. What I did was that I went to a café in San Francisco, took out ten ten-dollar bills, and started making sculptures out of each of them. People were quite interested in what I was going to do with the money. So I said to them, “You can have this piece of artwork. However, I need your phone number so that I can call you back every six months.
One person said she was very hungry at that time, so having a piece of artwork didn’t mean anything to her. Therefore she used the ten dollars to buy some bananas. The most interesting person was the homeless man John. At that time, I was a little bit hesitant to involve a homeless person with a project that dealt with money. However my professor said I should just accept whoever would like to participate, which I did. So, I gave John one piece. Now, whenever I go back to San Francisco, I visit him and give him another, and every time, he takes them out of his wallet and says, “Look, I still have the artwork.”
(Transcription from the recording ‘Eat, Sleep, and Pray: Everyday Rituals and Contemporary Art with Lee Mingwei and Tino Sehgal’ available at MoMA website.)

Luis o Miguel (Luis Gárciga y Miguel Moya)
Circulating action, 2003
photo-documentation of an action
Different kind of objects built with notes of one cuban peso were sold for the price. The objects have the price corresponding to the quantity of notes constitute it. The sales have been carried out indifferent spaces assuming the way of possible commercialization in this place. The figures are built using the technique of the origami and none is of the invention of the sales persons. The buyer, if he/she wants it can unfold them having the entire money that he/she paid to acquire it.
(Quoted from the video recording of the performance)
Installation view at Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Havana.
Contribution Claudia Claremi