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Postcolonial Auction

The first ever Postcolonial Auction in Basel, and also perhaps a first in Switzerland, in Europe and also the world (to the best of the artist's knowledge).

Parvez conducted a real auction for three carefully selected items:
1. Two Black Souls In White Paint - a dark wooden sculpture, (most likely of African origin) covered in white paint that the artist found on a street in Basel.
2. An Old Burmese Puppet - picked by artists from a flea market
3. A Piece Of Soul Of A South American Physician

The audience could bid for the objects in any currency they had on them. And all currencies were treated at par.
Humbug, Basel, 2019
https://www.parvez.work


References

Full spec

anderesformat
camera
Mess, Willem
dauer
30 min
doctype
Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
eventcurator
eventplace
Humbug, Basel
festival
SUMME-Jubiläum+Auftakt – Performance Program
function
Creator / Owner / Artist
jahrgang
1967
medium
Fotos / Photos
performers
remark
Photographer: Willem Mes
schlagwort
Bezüge:Appropriation;Bezüge:Politik;Themen:Artivismus;Qualitäten:absurd;Qualitäten:konzeptuell;Materialien:Fundstücke;Mittel:Partizipation;Räume:Bühne
sprache
eng