Abstract:An exposé of the “stagecraft” and performance of politics, the multimedia series Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015) sees American artist Taryn Simon recreate the floral arrangements displayed at thirty-six political treatise signings involving countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which responded to economic globalization, establishing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In citing the Dutch Golden Age 'impossible bouquet' as Paperwork’s historical… Show more
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