Sven Kalden
title. cash weirdo
date. 2025
Exhibition. Pavilion at the dairy.
Dimensions. approx. 14 x 2 x 2 m
Materials. Metal windows, needle felt, wooden construction, monitors, media players, plastic trays, coins, blackboards
The work cash weirdo is a room installation and a prototype experiment.
Between two players there is an anthracite-colored window object, its double-sided window wings pointing in the respective directions of the actors. The window object evokes associations with Marcel Duchamp's work Fresh Widow and corrects a popular metaphor of “throwing money out the window.”
Money is an IOU, an “I owe you.” Money comes into circulation as credit, and this credit creates a social relationship. Ideally, we are both creditors and debtors. We all have payment obligations, and others have payment obligations to us. Maintaining this relative balance of income and expenditure is becoming increasingly difficult for a large part of the population. Rising rents, higher electricity and gas prices, and the current cuts in cultural and social spending are exacerbating the problems of keeping debits and credits in balance.









