Money to Burn (performance art)

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Money To Burn
Artist Dread Scott
Year2010 (2010)
Type Money burning
Coordinates 40°42′25″N74°0′40″W / 40.70694°N 74.01111°W / 40.70694; -74.01111
Website www.dreadscott.net/portfolio_page/money-to-burn/

Money to Burn was a work of performance art executed on June 22, 2010, in which Dread Scott burned $171 [1] in US dollar bills in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Scott filmed himself repeatedly singing "money to bur-rn, money to burn" while burning one bill at a time with a Zippo lighter, both from the $250 in small bills attached to his clothes, and from bills solicited from passers-by. [2] [3] [4]

Describing the performance, Scott said "I did the one thing you shouldn't do with money: burn it. Burning it is the one thing that everyone thinks is just crazy. But I was doing in extremely small form what happens on the stock exchange daily on a much grander scale." [3]

After 25 minutes, the New York Police Department intervened and issued Scott a summons for disorderly conduct, which he fought in court. [3] [5] [6]

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