I AM DR. RENOSI MOKATE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA, MY OFFICE MONITORS AND CONTROLS THE AFFAIRS OF ALL BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA CONCERNED WITH FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENTS.
I AM THE FINAL SIGNATORY TO ANY TRANSFER OR REMITTANCE OF HUGE FUNDS MOVING WITHIN BANKS BOTH ON THE LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS IN LINE TO FOREIGN CONTRACT SETTLEMENT.
I HAVE BEFORE ME LISTS OF FUND, WHICH COULD NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO SOME NOMINATED ACCOUNTS AS THESE ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED EITHER AS GHOST ACCOUNTS, UNCLAIMED DEPOSITS AND OVER-INVOICED SUM ETC…
august 29 – september 15 . 2007
opening wed august 29 . 6 – 8 pm
frontspace
autopilot
gregory richards
What goes up must come down. However what if that that goes up costs in the order of 40 million dollars and is an unmanned high-altitude spy plane with a sixty metre wingspan and a payload of cutting edge monitoring technology? And where does it come down? The project Autpilot considers this question with a model of the high-tech drone, the global hawk, which the Australian government has been considering for purchase to use as a front line maritime surveillance tool. Here, however, the drone finds itself wrecked and impotent as though it has plummeted out of the sky and crashed nose down, embedding itself into the wall of the gallery.
French essayist, Paul Virilio in the catalogue for the exhibition Unknown Quantity presented at the Fodation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, 2003, discusses the notion of the invention of the accident, not as an unexpected unforeseen outcome, but as an inevitable and essential condition. To invent the train is to invent the derailment, furthermore, to invent the Very Fast Train is to invent a very fast derailment – a catastrophe.
Autopilot freezes this moment. The accident becomes strangely approachable, a comic book calamity, a Lichtenstein kaboom. The surveyor becomes the surveyed exposing its other state – oversight, fault. Autopilot, through its pop sensibility, acknowledges an earlier global hysteria, the McCarthy era ‘reds under beds’. However, will our high flying xenophobic eye perform to all expectations, and even if it does what might be the outcomes?
one small step for dan
daniel moynihan
One Small Step for Dan – a saw and a suitcase, the anticipation of amusement captured in the static moment before the punchline. Exploring notions of vulnerability behind a false bravado. A sculptural self-portrait combining elements of hand made and ready made objects. Hey everyone come and watch the arse fall out from under me yet again….oh yeah you can laugh!
I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.I am very rich,but was never generous, I have given most of my assets to my immediate family members. I have decided to give alms to charity organizations.I cannot do this myself anymore because of my health.I once asked members of my family to give some money to charity organizations,they refused and kept the money.I have a huge cash deposit of Eighteen Million dollars with a finance House abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity organizations.You will take out 20% of this funds for your assistance.DO REPLY ME VIA MY PRIVATE EMAIL(kmahmoud_kd@yahoo.com.hk) TO ASSIST ME.
SEPTEMBER 1 – 29
OPENING SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER, 6 – 8 PM,
UPLANDS GALLERY
STUDIO 3
249 – 215 CHAPEL STREET PRAHRAN VIC 3181
AUSTRALIA
TELEPHONE 61-3-95102374
Compliments,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA. I am writting to seek your coperation over this business deal.
In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$15million USD(Fifteen million US dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,WestAfrica and contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES)…
Dear friend
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of($ 47.600 USD) United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal. I am Mr Mohammad Musa (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[His/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing
Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative because you share thesame surname with the decease’s , thus I can work out the release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account , please be assured of the risk free , I’m the one that will work it out , all I need is your co-operation because the account content can not be approved to an indigen here as his next of kin…