THREE WHITE SOLDIERS

The Material of the Immaterial 

Three White Soldiers is an archive of stories, collected by Anders Paulin and Johan Forsman during a number of pilgrimages following the material as well as virtual landscape of contemporary economy.

The performance departs from high frequency trading, a financial phenomenon where computers are using algorithms to make transactions on the stock market in velocities challenging our concepts of time and space. From this perspective Anders and Johan have studied the relations between material and immaterial values, various ”time-spaces” operating beyond the human perception, and the use of patterns and images to visualize worlds and events impenetrable to the human horizon

Three White Soldiers is neither a critique nor capitulation towards the networking super speed of contemporary economy, rather an attempt to travel along its patterns and linguistic figures: A journey accompanied by the fetishes of the financial market, cowboys, algo-spoofers, astronauts and japanese rice traders.

Welcome!

this performance is part of the "Missing Rooms" project.

Location:
Townhouse Rawabet
3 Hussein Al memar street off Mahmoud Bassiouny st.
Downtown Cairo, Egypt