M HKA Ensembles

Performance, 00:50:00.

11.1.1980
​Antwerpen, Ankerrui Theatre

Na de vorige spraakmakende Money Performance komt het publiek terug. Deze keer maakt de kunstenaar een tentoonstelling met het geïnde geld, loopt hij rond in een pak gemaakt van geld en steekt de overschot op zak, het publiek tolereert dit niet.

'It's night.It feels good.

Last night I did The Rea(dy)-make of the
Money Performance.
I had my nerves under control
and my energy was focused.
The concept was just right.
The public didn't get what it came
for and what it had read in the papers:
scandal and success.
I gave them confusion and a new performance.'

(Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 11 January 1980)

'The press, what an unworldly medium.
How odd!
Two newspapers wrote exactly the same
about my performance:
'The originality of the ideas remains,
so we can expect a third Money Performance
from Jan Fabre.'
The answer to that is simple: FORGET IT!
What do they think, those journalists,
that an artist is a DJ (we request, you spin).'

(Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 16 January 1980)