How to end your wealth

How to end your wealth sends preconceived perceptions and everyday uses of money through the shredder. As money is stripped of its value and returned to its source material – paper – it attempts to bring forth other meanings and explores the value of "worth."

During this participatory performance, audiences are guided through a process of radically reconsidering their relationship to wealth – their own and that of others.
How to end your wealth is part play and part craft, which brings mapping, speculation and storytelling to bear. The participants experience how wealth turns into nothing, into paper pulp – for the undescribed beginning of a speculative future. How to end your wealth penetrates through your bank accounts into your minds and hearts, forging connections and tracing interdependencies within a global capitalist machinery. In doing so, it seeks to unravel larger questions and provokes thoughts about notions of ownership, principles of give & take, and privilege & aid…