PRETEND YOU'VE GOT NO MONEY (ENG‪)‬ Pretend You've Got No Money

Pretend You’ve Got No Money /

By Alicja Rogalska /

An unauthorised, undercover audio tour of your local supermarket /

Conceived to introduce disruption into daily shopping habits, the tour invites you to have a different kind of engagement with your local supermarket, treating it as a ready made scenography for a meandering, playful and mildly choreographic narrative on the politics of food production, distribution and consumption. Amongst the subjects covered are: Bourdieu’s theory of class distinction, bread riots, political neurology of disgust, the Great Irish Famine, the role of bananas in the Colombian civil war, migrant agricultural labour, automation, climate change crops, the psychology of shopping habits and Mussolini’s ban on pasta. /

Re-developed in 2021 by Artsadmin as part of What Shall We Build Here festival, Pretend You’ve Got No Money by Alicja Rogalska was originally designed for a local supermarket in Flemingsberg, Sweden as part of a Local Minima project with Vision Forum. /

Narrated by Anna-Maria Nabirye. Sound by Martin Clarke.