Give Millions, Make Billions
DVD, 7 mins, 2000

...This transposition of behaviour becomes even more absurd in the opening sequence of the video Give Millions, Make Billions , (1999). Here we see the members of Szuper Gallery demonstrating in front of the Munich Stock Exchange with blank banners and empty posters. Here too they are silent, as if to suggest that using language is impossible in the context of their performances. The demonstration relates to an approach apparent in both films: the articulation of a form of protest or opposition that does without speech and only uses symbolic languages. [...] Later in Give Millions, Make Billions , things become clearer as two children recite a speech by the speculator and philantropist George Soros. Their accent and the difficulty they have reading English show that the language is foreign to them. They are divested of their mother tongue. They seem to be practising for a language class. English, as the international language, is doubly distanced from them by the words of the successful self-made man. The aimless actions and foreign soundings words contrast with the world of financial speculation in which values circulate without andy real exchange.

Dirk Snauwaert, catalogue text to 'Dial M...'