VIVE LE CAPITAL
VIVE LE CAPITAL, HD Video Installation, 2010-2012, 15’05” / Pascal works on Wall Street and surpasses greed to become a prominent philanthropist. Greed surpasses Pascal because he works on Wall Street. VIVE LE CAPITAL is a deliberation on a love/hate relationship with money. The plot pirouettes between the protagonist’s soliloquy in French, and dancers who respond in various transgressive behaviors. Three of them travel to the time of Cosimo De Medici and visit the roots of our banking system; they also pay homage to the French Revolution and embody John Law, the first Ponzi schemer in history.