DEC13_SUPERDUPERFINAL

Rhine Bernardino for her part holds out an invitation. In her own
words:
As part of the process of getting my head around notions of abstraction
and the arbitrary designation of ‘value’ in our day to day life — concerns
ranging from trivial everyday objects such as toilet paper to the human
life, I want to extend my About 30,000 work series for VIVA Excon
2020. I started this work series as About 7000, a controversial figure
attached to the Philippines’s “war on drugs” which has now transitioned
to About 30,000 – lives, deaths, people.
For VIVA Excon, I want to collect 30,000 peso coins to be sent to Bacolod
from different sources in the Philippines. I want to use this opportunity
to connect and check-in with friends, families and colleagues and ask
for their participation in the project in the form of sending any amount
of peso coins to a space or address in Bacolod that will receive all of the
coins. In return, I will give them the option to either receive an artwork
for their contribution, reimbursement of their expenses or a meal or
treat that we can share in person when we meet sometime in the future.
The idea is to create a wishing well in the form of a tomb in Bacolod
wherein the peso coins collected will be utilized. 1 peso is equal to one
wish. The peso coins will be made available for the public to insert into
the wishing tomb slot in exchange for a wish.
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