Monument to Capital
Archi-Graphic
Project | Monument to Capital
Commissioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Curator | Naf Haq
Event | Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2017
Type | Archi-Graphic (Art Installation)
Date | 2017
Location | Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Production | Younes Bouadi
Construction | Frits Ham, Volkert Post
Photograpy | Jonas Staal
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Monument to Capital
The long-term research project Monument to Capital takes as its point of departure the Barclays Capital’s Skyscraper Index, managed by the international investment bank Barclays. The index visualizes the ‘unhealthy correlation between the construction of the next world’s tallest building and an impending financial crisis.’ Barclays’ argues that there is a structural relationship between economic crisis and the construction of the highest buildings of the world, from the Equitable Life Building in New York constructed in 1871 – the year of the onset of the “long depression”– to the Burj Khalifa constructed throughout the 2007-10 worldwide economic crisis.
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