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Projects

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  The Bitter Pill
  2011
  Collective performance and sculpture, Moscow August 30, 2011
  
  The sculpture is made by Boris Orlov, out of the material resulting from eight banknotes that have been chewed for about 10 minutes by: Igor Markin, art collector (10.000 JAP Yen); Kety Chukhrov, philosopher (100 US Dollars); Alexander Sogomonov, sociologist (200 CH Francs); Ekaterina Perventzeva, PR, (50 GB Pounds); Ekaterina Zenzirova, museum conservator (100 CAN Dollars); Andrey Silvestrov, videomaker (10.000 RUS Rubli); Daniil Shestakov, economist (100 AUS Dollars); Viktor Misiano, curator (500 Euro).

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  Quello che penso, quello che trovo, 27 e 28 maggio 2010
  2010
  Performance, MAXXI, Roma
  
  During the two days of the opening of the Maxxi Museum in Rome, I remained closed on a backstairs and I described verbally all the objects that I have been able to locate, with the help of a magnifying glass.

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  A Lap Around the Field
  2009
  video, 16' 47''

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  An artist’s working hours - a contract
  2009
  The contract between the artist Cesare Pietroiusti and the gallerist Franco Soffiantino provides that the gallerist doesn't sell materials works of the artst. Franco must be the broker for the sale of artist's hours. The buyers can choose from a range of activities that the artist certainly will do, such as performance, lectures, workshops and research.

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  Artworks That Ideas Can Buy
  2009
  Wilkson Gallery project Space, London
  
  A show with ten artworks by ten international artists .The artworks exhibited are for sale, but currency that can buy them is not money, but ideas. Visitorsￜ ideas.
  Participating artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Dara Birnbaum, Tania Bruguera, Adam Chodzko, Jeremy Deller, Jimmie Durham, Lara Favaretto, Joan Jonas, Dan Perjovski, Lia Perjovski.
  

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  Untitled (Three Thousand US Dollar Bills To Take Away)
  2008
  Installation for the show "Art, Price, Value", Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, November 2008
  photo: Serge Domingie.
  
  3000 USD bank-notes (1 and 5 dollars) are partly erased with sulphuric acid, and then signed by the artist. Each visitor to the exhibition can take away one for free.
  

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  Untitled (transient possession)
  2008
  Union beer on Modigliani 200 gr paper.
  Museum in the City, various sites, Ljubljana, September 2008
  
  Series of 10,000 unique artworks distributed for free and subject to limited ownership.
  
  

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  Three Thousand Drawings To Take Away
  2008
  Installation and collective performance, with Stefano Arienti,
  MAMbo, Bologna, April-June 2008
  
  A large wall in the museum was filled with drawings, made by the two artists. Each person of the audience, for the whole duration of the show, and for as long as there were available drawings, was free to take away.

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  Do not throw away the superflouos thoughts
  2007
  Performance, video

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  Money Watching
  2007
  

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  Eating Money
  2007
  Performance with Paul Griffiths

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  Enriching Food
  2007
  Performance
  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, May 2007
  
  A restaurant is run, for a 24 hour period, in the Cafeteria of Ikon Gallery.
  Normal menus are provided. As in any other restaurant, customers are free to eat as much as they wish.
  At the end of the meal, instead of paying the bill, the customer receives the cost of each course they have finished.
  
  

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  Quelli che non c'entrano
  2006
  Performance,
  Galleria Franco Soffiantino, November 2006
  photo: Fulvio Richetto
  
  Seven or eight elderly people, with no interest in contemporary art, are invited to attend the opening of an exhibition and are asked to hang out outside the door of the gallery for the duration of the event.

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  Untitled
  2006
  Performance with Gareth James
  Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Torino

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  Ma stai cercando qualcosa...oppure?
  2006
  Video Installation
  Photo: Fulvio Richetto
  Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Torino

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  Slow Food
  2005
  Performance
  Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, September 2005
  
  "Starting at 8.30pm, i and four volunteers (Valentina Uberti, Filippo Berta, Davide Ferrari, Giuseppe Ferrari), each ate a 200 gr pizza as slowly as possible while never ceasing the movements related to the eating process. The actions terminated between 11.15 and 11.45 pm."

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  Integrazione europea
  2005
  Performance, Tirana, September 17, 2005
  
  I tore a 100 euro note in six pieces and gave each piece to six young artists from Albania: Blerta Bati, Nikolin Boujari, Nerina Ciaccia, Adela Demetja, Dritan Hysenaj and Iva Seferi. The banknote, after the six pieces had been evacuated, was put together again, and must be considered a collective artwork of the six performers and mine.

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  Eating Money. An Auction
  2005
  performance by Cesare Pietroiusti and Paul Griffiths
  Viafarini, Milano, June 2005
  
  A public auction is held. Participants make offers corresponding to the sum of two bank-notes in euros. The successful bidder gives the two bank-notes to the artists who eat them publicly and promise that, once evacuated, they will be returned to the bidder with a certificate.

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  Untitled (4,000 watercolors)
  2005
  Performance, Galleria Civica, Trento, March 2005.
  
  Free distribution of 4.000 drawings, individually numbered and signed.

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