{"id":714,"date":"2015-09-05T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurenciastrauss.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2015-12-18T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T20:48:17","slug":"mickey-mouse-operations-buenos-aires-and-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laurenciastrauss.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Mouse Operations, a Gift to Paul Singer \/ Buenos Aires and New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Mouse Operations, a Gift to Paul Singer \/ \u00a0<\/strong>Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York, U.S. \/ 2014<\/p>\n

gloves, scraper, cookie cutter, a cookie made of dog feces, c-print photographs and video<\/a><\/p>\n

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On one neighborhood block of Calle Espinosa in Buenos Aires, Strauss collected the dog feces off the sidewalk. She then pressed the feces into a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter, cooked the pieces on an asado (a grill), brought them to the U.S. and left them in the planters on a corner of 5th Avenue in New York. This is the location of Elliot Management, the hedge fund of Paul Singer, the individual who gave the country of Argentina a predatory loan. While dog poop can be a kind of fertilizer, once cooked, it becomes inert. This project questions the politics of a gift and connects contemporary financial systems with neo-colonialism. An empty gift that has no positive impact is like lending a country money to supposedly help while charging an outrageous interest rate.<\/p>\n

See a write up in this project in HYPERALLERIC<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/vimeo.com\/149245285<\/p>\n

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