We`re Only In It For The Money.
Anna Daniell & Sverre Strandberg.Various art materials, looped sound,
paint marker on the wall, lambda prints. 2009. May 20.9 Chang-dong National Art studio South Korea 30.4.09 - 9.5.09
Opening Thursday 30.April 2009. This exhebition was to conclude our residency stay in Korea and share som of the thoughts and
works from our 3 months there. Chang-dong Art Studio, www.artstudio.or.kr/eng

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:
The installation "We’re Only In For The Money" shows two figures
assembled of new/unused art materials; the type of products you will
find in a regular art material shop. The two figures are doing the
activity of tagging on the gallery wall. One figure is pushing the pedestal
with the other figure on top in order to move along the wall.

The title is taken from Frank Zappas 1968 album "We're Only in It for
the Money" - which was a parody of the Beatles record "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band ". Zappas album may suggested that The
Beatles made something quite sellable out of the “Flower Power-scene”
on cost of the radical and experimental. Instead the hippie expression
became just another “image”, something to wear similar to clothing.

In this context the installation "We’re Only In For The Money"
reflects up on the struggling artist trying to make sellable works and
also point towards the discourse between matter and idea in art
theory. The art materials function as peculiar types of found objects
bearing the potential of rematerializing into a another artwork and
gain new value.

The installation also contain a sound piece. The voice is reading out the receipts from
the art material shop: oil paint 15 dollars, watercolour 5,50 dollars...and so on.
This reveals production costs and brings the sublime potential of viewing the
piece down to earth. The photographs on the contrary, depicting the two
figures in black and white, is parasitic to the main installation glorifying
the two figures and suggests an ironic self reflection.

The installation was showed at Open studio week during our residency stay
at Changdong national studios in Seoul, South Korea May 2009.
The exhibition was supported by Oca, Office for Contemporary Art Norway.