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Mar 11, 2023

Video: Vinicius Giust / Anton X

DETOX in the grey area between private and public. For our wash cycle in March, we used a basement room in our apartment block in Berlin Kreuzberg that is open to the street. It’s a rarely entered, rather hidden place – it’s also where the electricity meters for the whole house are located. The room thus becomes a kind of control centre. In this wash cycle, we used it as a metaphor for invisible entanglement, complexity and opacity. Musically, we used a large setup of various electronic and acoustic instruments, which were electronically amplified via transducers with cleaning buckets standing in the street. This allowed us to reach both invited audiences and random passers-by. It was not entirely clear whether the coffee we serve on the street, which was still pretty cold in Berlin in March, had been used as washing water before. Probably yes. And we simply drank all the money-dirt back into ourselves. 98% desperation, 2% humour.

Photo: Vinicius Giusti

Second attempt. Unannounced, quiet intervention in the interactive exhibition Berlin Global. For several hours, we repeatedly walked through the same doors of the exhibition rooms, triggering small sounds. The doors are labelled with seemingly mutually exclusive statements ‘I want to dare change’ versus ‘I want to protect what we have’. You always have to choose one of two options in the exhibition. DETOX cannot decide in this pointed, binary way. So we were always going back and forth, forwards and backwards, together and alone, without a solution. 98% despair, 2% humour.

Feb. 11, 2023

One ruble one euro
Video snippet on social media

Video: Detox

As the first of the monthly launderings, we published a mini-video on social media. It shows the central symbolic act of the money laundering project: four hands try to scour two coins with two toothbrushes. DETOX. 98% desperation, 2% humour.

February 2023

February 2023 / Publication in positionen – Texts on Contemporary Music

DETOX as a team of authors. As a prelude to the monthly performances and as a documentation of previous money laundering works, we are writing an article for the magazine positionen – Texte zur Neuen Musik. We announce that from now on we will draw attention, once a month, to our own and the general entanglement in global capital flows by laundering our money. 98% desperation, 2% humour.

Money Laundering
A text in Positionen. Texte zur aktuellen Musik. (Positionen. Texts on contemporary music.)
Photo: Positionen