(2001-2002) object & performance & installation
My Third Year Tuition Fees (2002), installation view (of Bada’s notes, photograph, the Guardian article text, letter and video) at The London Institute Gallery, London
Tuesday 11th September in 2001, I was at my desk in a small room overlooking a north London train line. I had been drawing and the TV screen had been on.
I drew, with pencils and pens, £ 6,750 in four different GBP denominations on paper. It took up most pf my summer holiday.
When it was time to enroll and pay my third year international tuition fees in early Oct that year, I joined the queue with most of my classmates, who, as Home or EU students, had paid far less money for the past two years than I had. And, when it came to my turn and I tried to pay it in the cash that I had drawn with pencils and pens. The cashier did not accept it.
This work then extends into and includes many related events, including discussions with the college leaders and some publicity in the Guardian newspaper, and eventually the final performed payment of English money but accompanied by The Bark performance conducted in the admin office of the college and outside the International office.
(Thanks to Linda Adams, Bill Watson & Beth Elliot)
My Third Year Tuition Fees (04. 10. 2001) with Linda Adams & Bill Watson at the Camberwell College admin centre, London, & ‘How Bada Made £6,950’ – The Guardian article (13. 11. 2001)
