One Hour of Infinity by Dadara

"When Bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When Artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money” - Oscar WIlde In 2010 I started my own Bank as an artist - the Exchanghibition Bank - in times when the government had no money for the Arts, but billions to bail out banks. A project exploring the Value(s) of Art and Money. A traveling bank booth where people could exchange their Money for our Banknotes of Zero, Infinite, Million, Love, and more. What is the Value of Art in a world which seems to see ‘Value’ mostly as synonymous for ‘financial Value’? Aren’t there so many other Values and isn’t often what we value most ‘priceless’? Money seems to quantify everything, but not everything can be quantified.Five years later I started the Hourtopia project in collab with Eileen Azad, to explore the value of Time in a world which seems to view Time as Money. We always seem to be very conscious and cautious how we spend our money. A penny saved is a penny earned, and we know we can only spend our money once. We don’t want to waste our valuable money, even though we realize that what is most valuable to us mostly is ‘priceless’. But are we as conscious about spending our time? Or are we just wasting our time making money? In Alice in Wonderland Alice asks the White Rabbit “How long is forever?” The White Rabbit then answers “Sometimes, just one second.” “One Hour of Infinity” is animated in collab with Zero0Null.