Presented at Freethought – Notes on Infrastructure in the Partisan Café during the Bergen Assembly 2016, Bergen, Norway on 04.09.2016

The collective Freethought, who was one of the main representatives at the Bergen Assembly in 2016, let Rosamund Roth and me perform at the Bergen Historical Fire Department where Freethought staged the famous Partisan Café in London.

Coins were thrown on the ground in this performance while Rosamund improvised to the sound of the crash with her cello. At every position where a coin fell a sentence was written on the floor by me. These sentences were compiled by Rosamund and myself as aphorisms to the concept of infrastructure, treated by Freethought during the exhibition.

The sentences were in a hat. Out of a total of 50 sentences, only 15 were randomly removed after I took a coin. “To Coin”, in this sense, is to be understood as a critique of the festivalization of art and a question about the genesis of knowledge. 

Coins are understood here as dispositives of the formation of capital knowledge by the equally criticized neo-liberal power structures.