The Peng! Collective

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Small group of activists, extending into a network of more than 100 people / PR agencies antagonists with unconventional campaigns and “dirty dealings” / Bold protest

Offered services: encrypted communication data to the public, secure call lines installment between politicians, secret agents and the public, real estate companies haunting etc

Based in Berlin, Germany
2013
www.pen.gg

The Peng! Collective, Civil Financial Regulation Office, 2018, 6th Athens Biennale 2018 ANTI, photo by Nysos Vasilopoulos

Civil Financial Regulation Office (2018)

The Civil Financial Regulation Office is a call center installation operated by six persons trained and hired as agents to call up representatives of financial regulatory and policy bodies in Europe, e.g. the European Central Bank. This is done by using German tax payers’ money to create temporary jobs in the precarious services sector in Greece, paying according to German minimum wage, while agents call those institutions partially responsible for the dire Greek situation. The project builds a bridge between financial technocrats and impacted people in Europe. Non-expert citizens feel the right to demand good answers to pressing questions and get them, eventually. Technocrats are required to see through the complexity of their own field of expertise and are reminded of their ethical orientation.

#socialdisobedience #civilsociety #financialregulations #negotiation #motivation

photos: Nysos Vasilopoulos, 6th Athens Biennale 2018 ANTI

Civil Financial Regulation Office, 2018
Installation, performance
Courtesy of the artist
The project is realized in collaboration with Apparat Athen, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Goethe-Institut Athen

Tue 30 Oct 2018

19:00

Artist talk

The Peng! Collective

Esperia Palace > Ground floor > GiGi

The Peng! Collective was founded in 2013 and is composed of a group of activists based in Berlin. They define themselves as an explosive concoction of activism, hacking and art battling the barbarism of our time. At AB6, The Peng! Collective exhibits the Civil Financial Regulation Office, a call center installation operated by six persons trained and hired as agents to call up representatives of financial regulatory and policy bodies in Europe. In this framework, the Peng! talks about their practice, how they explore creative means of protest and challenge mainstream mindsets with subversive direct actions and civil disobedience.