Vanessa Briggs - Performance: Money

MONEY

Money (Milk and Honey). 1996.
Intervention with video on Winter Solstice at the Museum of Modern Arts in Paris in the space opened by David Medalla.

1. I wake up .
2. I put a ladder and the blancket I have had since childhood in the cherry tree I have grown up with.
3. I switch the camera and film the cherry tree .
4. I roll myself up in the blancket on a branch of the tree.
5. I sleep.
6. I take the metro to the Museum of Modern arts in Paris with the orange laundry bascket containing black acrylic paint, gray pebles from the yard, the orange blancket I have had since childhood, two potatoes, two eggs, a bowl, a plastic square container, a snowman candle and honey .
7. I enter the space layed out by David Medalla where he has invited artists to perform.
8. I give a video camera with a digital screen to the audience with the video shot of the tree in the morning for them to pass around.
9. I light a candle of a snow-man and eat honey.
10. I dig two potatoes and insert two eggs into them and offer them to the public.
11. I cut many franc notes (3000F00) into pieces and mix them with pebles, black acrylic paint, white feathers, and blood ( recycled from the butcher's) in the plastic container.