The Bitter Pill project (2011)
Collective performance, sculpture, video

Polychrome Sculpture by Boris Orlov
Papier maché (chewed bank-notes) on ceramic plate

The sculpture is made of the material resulting from eight banknotes that have been chewed for about 15 minutes by: Igor Markin, art collector (10.000 JAP Yen); Kety Chukhrov, philosopher (100 US Dollars); Alexander Sogomonov, sociologist (200 CH Francs); Ekaterina Perventzeva, PR (50 GB Pounds); Ekaterina Zenzirova, museum conservator (100 CAN Dollars); Andrey Silvestrov, videomaker (10.000 RUS Rubli); Daniil Shestakov, economist (100 AUS Dollars); Viktor Misiano, curator (500 Euro).

Performance realised on August 31st, 2011, for the exhibition "Impossible community", curated by Viktor Misiano, State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, 7 September - 6 November 2011.
   

Eating Money – An Auction
(a project by Cesare Pietroiusti and Paul Griffiths, 2005-2007)

European Integration (2005)

Give the artist a banknote of yours (minimum 20 euro). He will transform it with sulphuric acid and will give it back to you, together with a certificate   (2007)

Untitled (Three Thousand US Dollar Bills To Take Away) / Senza titolo (tremila banconote in dollari da portare via) (2008)

Disponibilità della cosa / Availability of the Thing (2008-2012)
by Stefano Arienti and Cesare Pietroiusti, in collaboration with Paolo Bergmann