| Katya Sander | e@katyasander.net |
| If you read this, I'll give it to you / Wenn du dies liest, gebe ich es dir 2005 badges with print, distributed in public Thousands of badges are distributed throughout the city. Each badge reads, “If you read this, I’ll give it to you (but then you must wear it too).” (In German: "Wenn du dies liest, gebe ich es dir (um auch zum tragen)")
Wearing the badge is like bearing a contract that is entirely transparent: “I’ll give you this badge if you ask for it.” This exchange never ends though because as soon as someone receives the badge, they then bear the contract. That is, they have the responsibility to pass it on to whoever asks for it. Free exchange, from which value has been entirely removed, as the badge passes from person to person, all that changes are the positions (‘I’ and ‘you’) of those who come into contact with it: from the one who asks, and thus receives, to the one who gives, to the one who remembers (and perhaps tells someone about it).
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