Archive Cinema City 2009.
The market eventually crashed , thus the term bubble economy. AglioMania designates a fresh garlic bulb as the object of desire and mobilizes a bidding frenzy with expanded social network scheme. G-dinar appropriated from Serbian currency is distributed and can be accumulated. A la Joseph Beuys "Kunst=Kapital", Agliomania proposes "Friends=Kapital", the G-capital at Agliomania is earned by having friends. Having friends makes you more G-dinar, more power to bid. The highest bidder eventually gets the desired garlic bulb.
http://www.agliomania.com
Biographies of the artists and the groups:
Shu Lea Cheang, artist, conceptualist and film maker, has worked in the field of net-based installation, social interface, networked performance and film production. Her work traverses between hard and soft, sex and politics, fiction and reality, fantasia and earth-bound. Her work with garlic as credito for trading started in New York city in 2002. Agliomania is first presented at “L'Impresa dell'Arte” , Palazzo delle Arti Napoli in 2008.
