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| When
Vultures become Vampires |
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| Intervention
and action |
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| VI
Bienal de Jafre |
| Jafre,
Spain |
| Organizers:
Mario Flecha and Carolina Grau |
2013
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| Description |
| A
series of vulture-kites positioned at different points in
the village, plus a large, vulture-shaped piñata with
coins, bills (with the faces of key figures associated with
the vulture funds active in Spain) and candy inside, which
was duly smashed to pieces by the public. |
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Introduction |
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| Carrion-feeding
birds have their place in our world; it is not an enviable
one, but it is as stable and inevitable as that of the undertaker.
The problem arises when their appetite exceeds the supply
of corpses available and their diet expands as a result. Today,
irregularities in the economic sphere allow "vulture" funds
(high-risk hedge funds) to no longer limit their manipulations
to money that is inactive or at rest; they are now free to
pillage the weakest areas of active money as well. If vultures
become vampires, choosing to feed off blood that still circulates
instead of that which has ceased to do so, nature's clock
is vertiginously pushed forward, dragging all of us down into
a voracious vortex. |
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the Jafre Biennial, vulture-kites hovered over the village,
and in order to satisfy the curiosity awakened by such strange
circumstances, one vulture-in the form of a large piņata-was
downed by the public blow by blow, and the contents of its
interior (in this case bills, coins and candy) thus distributed
among those present. |
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| Tamara
Stuby |
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