Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats opens "The First Bank of Antimatter" tonight, November 12, with a FREE reception at Modernism Gallery, 685 Market St., from 5:30 pm - 8 pm.What is "The First Bank of Antimatter"? Well, it's a hedge against future catastrophe in which the artist has created a mirror economy designed to skyrocket as world markets plummet. It's the first holistic response to the great recession, a far-reaching financial innovation. Far out.
"Economic equilibrium is upset by our unbalanced pursuit of material wealth," explains Keats. "My plan is to offset materialism with modern science, by exploiting the economic potential of antimatter, which is the physical opposite of anything made with atoms, from luxury condos to private jets."
Backed by private Swiss funding, The First Bank of Antimatter will serve as a hub for antimatter transactions worldwide, eventually financing the building of antimatter infrastructure and providing the public with a full range of investment opportunities. "But our first order of business will be printing money," says Keats. "Cash is the foundation of any economy, and an anti-economy is no exception."
Issued in three convenient denominations, ranging from 10,000 positrons to 1,000,000 positrons, and initially trading at an exchange rate of $10 to $1,000, the anti-money will be backed by antimatter stored in the bank's vault. Because matter and antimatter annihilate each other on contact, antimatter positrons will be continuously produced on location by decay of the radioactive isotope potassium-40.
Feeling a little cash poor these days? Like we said above, the reception tonight is FREE.
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