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“Money Haven” is a simulation of an offshore company. The collective behind it employs this method to investigate the issues of international tax evasion. The project asks what mechanisms legitimise such practices and normalise the activities of companies offering tax evasion services. “Money Haven” directly appropriates the well-known companies offering such services (like Mossack Fonseca and The Nomad Capitalist). The imitated elements of their rhetoric and aesthetics reflect the familiar logic of contemporary entrepreneurship, in which lack of expertise is overcompensated by an overconfidence in oneself and standardised design to create the illusion of legitimacy. In their performative installation, which balances between absurdity and seriousness, “Money Haven” investigates tensions between capital, the individual and the state and aims to reveal how the corporate practice of tax evasion directly affects the decline of collective wellbeing on a global and local state level. These tensions are discussed more extensively in Money Haven magazine, which functions as a reflective continuation of the installation.

“Money Haven” participants:

Ieva Sriebaliūtė (b. 1993) is a political researcher and a graduate of Political Sciences at Vilnius University International Relations and Political Science Institute. She holds a master’s in European Politics at Lund University, Sweden. Paul Paper (b. 1985) is an artist, theorist and curator. Mindaugas Gavrilovas (b. 1990) is designer and founder of "Studio Cryo".