Pigzine reporter: “What’re you going to spend the money on?”

“Well we were thinking about what we would like to buy right now and what we can buy in the festival context. I guess outside of the festival we would try and use it for something less….. selfish.”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 06/07/2019

Read about Open 49 here

“I first thought that I had to submit an online form… but it’s my decision isn’t it?”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 05/07/2019

“It’s really interesting that there’s money there that I could have, but I’m not going to take it. What is that moral decision?”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 06/07/2019

“This is an amazing project. We looked at it at night and it felt very different. It’s like a dystopian or utopian future but you don’t know which.”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 06/07/2019

Pigzine reporter: “You’re the first person from Kelburn to open Pig. What are you going to do with the money?”

Young girl: “I’m going to buy lollipops for everyone.”

“For who?”

“Everyone at Kelburn.”

“How many lollipops is that?”

“100…. probably.”

One of the other girls: “No not lollipops.”

Dad: “We all have to agree before we can open it. It doesn’t work if you can’t get everyone to agree – we can come back later when you’ve agreed”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 05/07/2019

You can read about Open 47 here

“There’s a Pig you’re allowed to steal from. Come on let’s go and steal from it”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 05/07/2019

“I need to think of a really good idea now. I don’t trust the rest of humanity to spend it on something good so I need to think of a really really good idea just to rip the band-aid off. Maybe I’ll build a hedgehog farm.”

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Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland – 05/07/2019

“It’s not a social experiment because we already knew what the outcome would be before… it will come to Cork and will get cleared out!”

Member of the public, Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork, Ireland. 16/06/2019

“Wow, this is the biggest piggy bank I’ve ever seen… I guess it’s street art. Maybe a metaphor for something. It’s very unusual. I like it. I’m going to take a photo of it.”

Member of the public, Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork, Ireland. 16/06/2019

“I don’t know about you, but I can really see right through it!”

Member of the public, Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork, Ireland. 16/06/2019