The Paper of Money

mala Voadora likes images, likes objects that disseminate images, collections of these objects and the processes of classification that, be they more objective or more sentimental, are used to order collections. For example, stamp collections.

We also like to bring this type of material to the theatre (which contemporary art jargon inscribes within the scope of the “archive”) because it is so fictional – for the images it contains and the history of the collections themselves – and, at the same time, so strange to theatrical tradition. Images are two-dimensional and tend to have a way of existing that is permanent: they are there, still. But not the theatre. And the theatre can transform itself so that these collectible images become its protagonists. This is what we did in 2005, in philatélie, with a collection of stamps, and this is what we will do again now, but with notes. We will handle them over a table, analyze them, combine them in different ways and show them in real time and large-format amplitudes, this time glowing brightly on a LED screen. The history of the world on small pieces of paper.