Holly English and Claudia Sambo
Potato Money, digital video, 2020
Prepared for There and Back Again (TABA) Online Symposium at UAL's Centre for Circular Design
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Potato Money began as research imagining an alternate future where potatoes function as currency. We explored how this method might enable a circular economy and a priority shift towards a sustainable lifestyle. The film was first shown at TABA symposium 2020. We have kept the original version as a snapshot of archival history despite some outdated statements. We continue to promote the concept via social media, often as a humorous take on current events - notably the rise of cryptocurrencies. The work resides in discourse and we relish opportunities to broaden our understanding of economic systems.
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Potato Money is a collaboration between Claudia Sambo and Holly English. The two met whilst studying for their MA at Chelsea College of Art in 2019.
Claudia Sambo is a conceptual artist working with performance/photography, text and video favouring a DIY aesthetic. She repeatedly engages her body as a site of struggle and endurance. Her work is permeated with humour and fluctuates between sentimentality and failure, the absurd and the poetic.
Holly English is an interdisciplinary artist with an interest in the systems and structures that govern our actions and desires. Carrying out her work with great diligence, there is a humorous self-affirmation in her naive attempts to be a better earth member.
Claudia Sambo is a conceptual artist working with performance/photography, text and video favouring a DIY aesthetic. She repeatedly engages her body as a site of struggle and endurance. Her work is permeated with humour and fluctuates between sentimentality and failure, the absurd and the poetic.
Holly English is an interdisciplinary artist with an interest in the systems and structures that govern our actions and desires. Carrying out her work with great diligence, there is a humorous self-affirmation in her naive attempts to be a better earth member.
