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# Foreign Investments

Foreign Investments

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## Posts

- [Work](https://foreign-investments.com/work/)
- [WANTED UNWANTED & WANTED AGAIN:  The Alchemy Project](https://foreign-investments.com/wanted-unwanted-wanted-again-the-alchemy-project/) - Gilding work in progress Global Minimum Wage Data published from 2024 As part of Foreign Investment’s GOLD series, which has been running since 1997, this project transforms forgotten or unwanted items into an valuable work of art through the ancient art of
- [THE BIG HEART DEBATE AKA THE INCREDIBLE RE-BIRTH DINNER](https://foreign-investments.com/the-big-heart-debate-aka-the-incredible-re-birth-dinner/) - Inspired by the 'Dinner in the Iguanodon Model' (1853) media dinning event, initiated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins at Crystal Palace. Hawkins set up the famous “Dinner in the Iguanodon” on New Year's Eve 1853 inviting 21 leading academics to sit inside one of his dinosaur sculptures to dine and debate. In 2022 foreign investment reconfigures
- [DUTY FREE, Gasworks (1999)](https://foreign-investments.com/duty-free-1999-gasworks/) - DUTY FREE offers a whole range of activities to participate: casting, melting of chocolate, wax, lead, including sing songs and a violin. The gallery space is bestowed with several stations such as foundry, lounge where activities take place. Friendly, relaxed comfortable atmosphere, warm light a space where you can take a deep breath, take your
- [POKER, 48th Venice Bienniale (1999)](https://foreign-investments.com/poker-1999-48th-venice-biennial/) - part of the Oreste program, Italian pavilion, curator Harald Szeemann Cultural Capital, Outrage and Exchange The Italian artist collective Oreste invited foreign investment to perform in their project space in the Italian Pavilion. In this performance, cigarettes stamped wit the foreign investment logo are used as gambling stakes. Any visitor wishing to join the game may
- [EGG SERIES](https://foreign-investments.com/breeding-iii-2005-cornerhouse-manchester/) - BREEDING (Civilisation and its discontent) works to reverse and restructure the production of art. Each time a thousand eggs (raw, signed, numbered) are laid out on the floor to symbolise liability*. By purchasing an egg, visitors are invited to invest in the art of tomorrow. Breeding concerns the desires for origins. And since the origins
- [VENICE ORATORY, 51st Venice Biennale (2005)](https://foreign-investments.com/venice-oratory-2005-venice-agendas-iv-51st-venice-biennale/) - Neighbours in Dialogue, Venice Agendas IV, 51st Venice Biennale, THE JANUS FACE OF VENICE Chair: William Furlong, Audio Arts, London and Mel Gooding TUNING -IN OP. 2 represents the last movement and concluding fugue of the work. It is a polyphonic composition in which a short melodic theme is introduced by one part and successively taken
- [GOOD MORNING CAMBERWELL (2004)](https://foreign-investments.com/good-morning-camberwell-2004-house-gallery-london/) - The one-day event in the House gallery was part of a month-long series of shows and events called Yesvember organised by Mark McGowen, PaulKane and Chunky Arts  in November 2004. Good Morning Camberwell unfolded as a one-day, super-local on-the-pavement radio broadcast with and for the people of Camberwell Church Street. DJ Terry was broad-casting
- [SUPERMEN (2003)](https://foreign-investments.com/supermen-2006-video-animation-fact/) - SUPERMEN firstly written, secondly live performed in close collaboration with 24 Men at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Thirdly a film animation was produced: Supermen II. Supermen is about the most explosive material, our brain, a soft organ set aside from all the other organs on top of a mostly vertically held body and encased
- [SKY SERIES](https://foreign-investments.com/one-square-foot-of-sky-2014/) - One Square Foot of Sky “Collector Club” the exhibition in Hong Kong included work by renowned artists LamTung Pang and LiuDing curated by Ying Kwok https://www.k11artfoundation.org at the art space Oi! in Hong Kong (2014) One Square Foot of Sky forms part of a newly developed work that had its debut in three cities, London,
- [LOST, London (2016)](https://foreign-investments.com/lost-london-2016/) - LOST curated and produced in collaboration with choreographer, Dickson Mbi for the Wild New Territories. The performance articulated, bio diversity and the loss of species within the UK. Ron den Daas & Kathy Kenny's groundbreaking exhibition occupied galleries, museums as well as outdoor spaces in restored or protected wild lands in London, Vancouver and Berlin
- [HAPPY HOUR (2019)](https://foreign-investments.com/happy-hour/) - HAPPY HOUR ! is inspired by weather reports, swinging between normality and crisis mode in the summer of 2019, a summer of rising temperatures, burning Tundra, deforestation and rapidly melting Greenland ice. The empty space of the Holden Gallery will provide the backdrop to a dance session, provocations and interruptions. In addition to the visuals
- [CARRYING ON 2020](https://foreign-investments.com/carrying-on/) - https://youtu.be/AMwh5Tzepj0 following an invitation by http://www.rosemarycronin.co.uk the CARRYING ON film, launched in March 2020 just before lockdown at the Freud Museum as part of You Burn Me an evening of immersive performance and film marking against the backdrop of International Women's Day. Carrying On leads the viewer through a cycle of emotions that range from
- [THE LAUGHING STOCK X CHANGE](https://foreign-investments.com/the-laughing-stock-x-change/) - In the Republic, Plato warned that abandonment to violent laughter might provoke a violent reaction. Freud’s work has since reminded us that jokes can precipitate transgressive, or forbidden thoughts and feelings that may represent social taboos, or personal anxieties. Today, medical science has highlighted the importance of laughter for health and social wellbeing as it
- [SOCIAL DISTANCE DANCE (2020)](https://foreign-investments.com/social-distance-dance-2020/) - for London Biennale 2020, Masks, Mirages and the Morphic Mirror incl. a live Street Social Distance Dance on Lind street London https://vimeo.com/438239564
- [MOONSHINE WALK](https://foreign-investments.com/moonshine-walk/)
- [FABLE FILES / PILOT](https://foreign-investments.com/fable-files-pilot/) - We all have sayings or proverbs that help us and that we sometimes need to hear again: THE FABLE FILES - pilot invited mainly artists to share their proverbs on an answering machine over a few set August days, leading to ‘interior’ mixes that question the gaps and the synchronicity between dialogue. With more people
- [THE DEBATE, Resonance FM London (2005)](https://foreign-investments.com/the-debate-2005-resonance-fm-london/) - A roundtable discussion with Sir Norman Rosenthal (curator/art historian), Alessio Antoniolli (Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network), Mark Mcgowen (performance artist) Claudia Wegener and Guy Brett (art critic/curator) on the exhibition, Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments at Tate Modern. Our key proposition was to introduce customer trolleys at the Tate Modern to make shopping easier. from left
- [SUNDAY MATINEE (2005)](https://foreign-investments.com/sunday-matinee-2005-tenant-spin-liverpool/) - commissioned and funded by FACT off site projects, Liverpool This unique and highly innovative project pioneers new collaborative practice with elderly tenants in High Rise Tower blocks throughout Liverpool. In Sunday Matinee, a choreographed afternoon of heightened sensual experiences including music, poetry food and dance.
- [GOLD SERIES](https://foreign-investments.com/rio-de-janeiro-and-deptford/) - The GOLD series, which continues to this day, is one of FI's most successful projects. The first incarnation of gold-x-change was commissioned by Beral Madra of BM Contemporary Art, Istanbul, during the 1997 Biennale. EVERYTHING MUST GO | CFCCA | Manchester 2011 A collection of hundreds of small unloved items donated by local retailers
- [SPIRES EMBERS, Gogol Fest, Kiev (2009)](https://foreign-investments.com/31/) - RED PARADIGM for Eidos Foundation, Ukrane GOGOL FEST 2009 Mystetskyi Arsenal, KIEV, Ukraine, Curator Adam Nankervis During the live performance, red sheets were torn into strips and then hand-sewn back together into a large banner. On the opening night, FI also smashed old china, for which the public was invited to glue the broken dishes
- [THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PROJECT (2009)](https://foreign-investments.com/the-immaculate-conception-project/) - The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space at the Tate Liverpool, a thought provoking although aesthetically pleasing installation that could be described as an audible tableau vivant for visitors to look at and listen to was presented. The space has been facilitated by International Festival who designed a modular and flexible installation that can be modified
- [TOPPING-OUT ACT 1, 2 & 3, Arts Council England, Manchester (2009, 2010-11)](https://foreign-investments.com/topping-out-act-2-3/) - The ACE commissioned this event in 3 acts, 'Topping Out' to celebrate the migration into the new ACE building: The Hive, Lever Street, Manchester . Act 1: used the unfinished, new building to celebrate the move to the site. It brought together live music, wild dancing, fabulous choral chanting and brief talks on dowsing, the architecture of
- [WORK IN THE PUBLIC REALM](https://foreign-investments.com/close-encounter-work-in-progress/)
- [I WANNA BE ME I WANNA BE (E) U (2019)](https://foreign-investments.com/i-wanna-be-me-i-wanna-be-e-u-2019/)
- [FOUR WORDS, LIVERPOOL (2016)](https://foreign-investments.com/four-words-2016-liverpool/) - Alan Dunn, artist/curator, presented FOUR WORDS on the The Media Wall, opposite Lime Street as part of Liverpool Provocations: A series of artistic interruptions Dunn will host an alternative stream of provocative 10-second animations with over 100 participants from a range of backgrounds invited to compose four word statements. The contributors include Gerhard Richter, Douglas Coupland,

## Pages

- [Foreign Investment (FI)](https://foreign-investments.com/) - ”The group is dealing with the socio-economic and political issues in the environment they live in, yet their questioning is chiefly economical; indeed, they are examining the social and cultural formations and transformation caused by economic phenomena at micro-and macro level with their work, they wish to raise an awareness for the conditions we live
- [I WANNA BE ME I WANNA BE (E) U (2019)](https://foreign-investments.com/i-wanna-be-me-i-wanna-be-e-u-2019/) - Projecting political identities through fashion, in times of economic and ecological uncertainties is a live interactive art performance inspired by catwalks and focused on self-expression, making and performance, taking place in a recently closed supermarket. The foreign investment (FI) event was directed by Alma Tischlerwood and Rosemary Cronin in collaboration with students LCF, Oxford St
- [press](https://foreign-investments.com/press/) - Excerpt of an NEWS: 21 Sep 2012/ by: MICHAELA NETTELL Wild New Territories We report from the opening of this ambitious curatorial project, which explores the complex and often problematic relationship between nature and culture. As guests congregate under glistening chandeliers and exquisite canapés are handed round, a group of pinafored women enter the wood-panelled function
- [collaborators](https://foreign-investments.com/friends/) - Adam Nankervis, Alan Dunn, Andreas Uhl, Andrew Carmichael, Arvinder Bawa, Adam Crow, Ben Browton, Beral Madra, Bernadette Buckley, Brian Biggs, Caroline Kraabel, Cyril Lepetit, Christina de Melo, Daniel Andreallo, David Medalla, Denizhan Ozer, Elizabeth Davies, Emily Volker, Fiona Boundy, Frauke Ehmke, Dr.Francesco Mazzarella, Guy Brett, John Wood, Kat Dempsey, Kathy Rae Huffman, Leila Romaya, Marie-Anne
- [contact / links](https://foreign-investments.com/links/) - contact: quick response: almatisch@gmail.com or foreign.investment.art@gmail.com links: https://twitter.com/fi_london https://www.facebook.com/foreign-investments-188257137898158/ www.wildnewterritories.com www.southlondonmuseum.com www.monaco-bank.com http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk www.militarycareers.com http://www.sublimemagazine.com www.artonfilm.co.uk www.rspca.org.uk www.sothebys.com
- [videos](https://foreign-investments.com/i-wanna-be-me-i-wanna-be-e-u-2019/video/) - Action in response to the Tate Modern's offensive betrayal of Joseph Beuys's concern of nature and the environment which he expressed in his work during a posthumous retrospective exhibition. 'Beuysian' commercial products sold in the gift shop were jokey nick-knacks using unsustainable materials and to top it off, the Tate sold certificates with map to
- [biography](https://foreign-investments.com/biography/) - foreign investment (FI) is a work of art and an artist collective based in the UK initiated between actions, objects and performance. Our selected interventions could be described as open manipulations of every-day rituals, such as the exchange of a coin for an object. foreign investment has been banking with gold, jokes, eggs and laughter.
- [work in the public realm](https://foreign-investments.com/work-in-the-public-realm/)

## Categories

- [Past Projects](https://foreign-investments.com/category/archived/)
- [Latest](https://foreign-investments.com/category/latest/) - I WANNA BE ME I WANNA BE (E) U (2019)

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