Halfpenny Museum, also referred to as the Poor Museum, is a reference to an old British beggar's line. The museum is an experiment with an authorship sans desire, self-inscribed in a culotte perspective. Halfpenny finds itself in a state of anticipation - before and beyond a physical or economic structure, capital, investor, labour, production. The museum has taken on the shape of a beggar, posted on the sidewalks of art galleries, on the stairs of museums, in a stagnated pose, like décoration vivante. A receptor for whatever drops out from merciful pockets. Without a program. A collector of surpluses. One may speculate if the filth on the beggar's coat is or is not designer dirt. And yet, the story begins right there, in the filth that s/he inhabits, in the blur transmitted on to anything which co-inhabits this slow motion, infertile space without tongue. Halfpenny Museum begs for a history. Begs for pieces. The collection is the pennies in the beggar's box. The box is open on occasion, letting them pennies sparkle up in the eyes of borrowed art crowds.

Presentation # 2
MANIFESTO

The collective manifesto of the Halfpenny Museum will be presented as a textual action featuring contributions by Marco Bruzzone, Karl Holmqvist and Adriana Lara.
You are cordially invited to collect your own copy from the sidewalks of Auguststrasse, Berlin-Mitte.

Friday, April 4, 2008
From 7:00 am

HALFPENNY MUSEUM
Badstr 64, 133 57 Berlin
am@halfpenny-museum.com
www.halfpenny-museum.com