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Watch the K-Foundation Burn a Million Quid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Watch the K-Foundation Burn a Million Quid is a 16mm colour documentary film of the K Foundation burning a million pounds in cash. The K Foundation destroyed the film, feeling that the public had to have faith that the burning had taken place, rather than proof. They threatened to burn the K Foundation art award prize money (Gimpo was fumbling with matches and lighter fluid when at the last moment Rachel Whiteread accepted the prize). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watch_the_K-Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid   (1940 words)

News Fresh : Article 'K Foundation' The K Foundation was wound up on November 5th, 1995 when Drummond and Cauty signed a contract with the "rest of the world" agreeing not to discuss the burning for 23 years. The first manisfestation of the K Foundation was a series of adverts in UK national newspapers (both in the magazine supplements of the quality broad sheets and in the tabloid press). Whiteread initially refused to accept the K Foundation award, but after being told that the money would be incinerated, she reluctantly accepted and later donated the money to struggling young artists. www.news-fresh.net /DisplayArticleFull262936.html   (877 words)

BBC - h2g2 - The KLF - the Band The Tate said it was a security risk, despite the K Foundation pointing out that they would immediately make a profit of a quarter of a million which they could use to buy some 'real' art. Their best remembered exploit, however, was the ceremonial burning of a million pounds of their own money, earned during their KLF period. The K Foundation also recorded the odd piece of music, the most important of which was the recording of a single with the Red Army Choir, K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It), which was released only in Israel to commemorate the peace process in the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A167690   (1055 words)

Gimpo He shot the Watch The K-Foundation Burn A Million Quid film, drove Bill Drummond and Z to the top of the world and was the masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when Rachel Whiteread came to claim the K Foundation Award. Perhaps best known because he was a roadie for the KLF and then a K Foundation 'operative'. However, the last known roadying he did was at the 1996 BRIT Awards where he touched the sole of Michael Jackson. www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gi/gimpo.html   (408 words)

Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond... On 23 August 1995, 'Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid', a 63 minute film of unedited footage was screened in the village hall on Jura. The K Foundation was also the subject of a BBC Omnibus documentary looking into their motives for burning the money. She was obliged to accept the £40,000 K Foundation prize or it would be burnt. www.mutelibtech.com /mute/2k/cautdrumm.htm   (1418 words)

Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site. The three old ladies and the old gentleman sit and watch the K Foundation burn a million quid. They're ready to watch the K Foundation burn a million quid. I watch the shadows and silhouettes of perhaps the most successful of late '80s/early '90s Pop Acts (certainly the most intriguing Pop Mavericks of the era) burn their million quid. www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/2001/sept/million.html   (474 words)

User:Drstuey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Drstuey   (155 words)

K Foundation All over the UK, people were invited to "watch the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid". A contract to end the K Foundation for 23 years was painted on the side of a Nissan Bluebird van, which was then driven into the Atlantic ocean. The duo's subsequent operations went under the moniker of the K Foundation, "an imaginary Art Foundation in which the two top-hatted gentlemen that can be seen in the background of Munch's picture The Scream are the Trustees". www.uncarved.org /jetexts/kfound.html   (826 words)

gmane.music.klf it was going to be a screening of watch the k foundation burn a million quid, but AFAIK it never took place because B+J realised the futility of the QandA sessions after the screenings. I was in Glasgow on the 5th November watching the fireworks. Fnord > timelord showed up presumbly along with Jimmy,Bill and Gimpo. comments.gmane.org /gmane.music.klf/747   (859 words)

Clinton's Rogues Gallery: Appearance Of Quid Pro Quo As Lawrence DiRita, a scholar at the Heritage Foundation, reported three years ago, Galaxy officials approached several large U.S. telecommunications companies prior to 1994 in the hope of involving them in their partnership with SCandM Brooks. Judicial Watch 5/13/99 "...Chung also testified that he told the FBI to investigate "their own people" at the Reno Justice Department, as he was made to understand that the "Number 3" at the Reno Justice Department was going to "fix" the investigation into his fundraising activities. K.S. Wu, according to his official Commerce Dept. information sheet, was a very busy man. Wu, according to the Commerce profile, was a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and did graduate work at Yale. www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/606577/posts   (19270 words)

KLF They initially planned to donate their "Nailed to the Wall" to the Tate, however they ended up burning the one million pounds in banknotes on film "Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" on 22nd August 1994 on the Isle of Jura. Such antics as burning a wicker man style effigy in the Shetlands, on the Hebridean Island of Jura during their 1991 pagan rave to celebrate the "Rites of Mu" have certainly increased attention towards them. They have been known to ridicule art prizes as in 1994, the K foundation presented £40,000 to Turner prize-winning sculptress Rachel Whiteread for worst artist. www.digital-daydreams.com /enc/composers/show_composer.php?id=81   (698 words)

4271 Having burned a million quid, made the home movie, and made a documentary about it (screened on Omnibus two weeks ago), the K Foundation are now keeping silent. Two years on they withdrew all the K Foundation's assets from the bank, headed up to Jura and burned the lot in a fireplace in an empty croft. The K Foundation smile and chat as they flick one fifty pound note after another onto a burning fire. www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/42/4271   (461 words)

gmane.music.klf The K Foundation's piece of art is worth £1,000,000 because they worked for that £1,000,000 instead of, say, sitting staring at a piece of card for 100,000 hours or spending that long painting a picture. They filmed it, partially burned notes were found on the beach, bank statements show the withdrawal, and they paid the fine for destroying the money It would have been cool if they kept touring with the ashes throughout the UK. comments.gmane.org /gmane.music.klf/655   (7805 words)

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid In the early hours of the 23 August 1994, in a boathouse on Jura, off the west coast of Scotland, the trustees of the K Foundation, Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond burned the assets of the foundation ­ £1 million in £50 notes. After disbanding the KLF in 1992 Cauty and Drummond set up the K Foundation. This book is a further exploration of the act, with stills from the film and a selection of the statements, letters and verbal responses of those attending the screenings and associated activities. www.ellipsis.com /catalogue/unpopular/1899858377.html   (171 words)

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Protest prints are stamped on The band once burned £1m in banknotes, leaving only a film called Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid. The series, Black Smoke, Stamps of Mass Destruction, was created last year in protest at the Iraq war by James Cauty, a former member of the art-world pranksters and rock musicians known variously as KLF and the K Foundation. A small London gallery has been told by Royal Mail to destroy prints showing postage stamps of the Queen in a gas mask - and tell them of anyone who owns copies. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1257272,00.html   (316 words)

The KLF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The resultant film, Watch The K-Foundation Burn A Million Quid, was toured around the UK. The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front), more recently known as the K Foundation, also known as The Timelords, furthermore known as The JAMs, was one of the seminal bands around the time of the Acid House movement in Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Founded by Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D, Time Boy) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock, Lord Rock) in the wake of the disbandment of the sampling outfit The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the KLF went on to release a series of world-wide hits on their own KLF Communications record label. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_KLF   (832 words)

Jihad Watch: Comment on Rumsfeld Fears Losing War On Islamic Extremism I watched him carefully; the way he looked told me that he would like nothing else than to kill me right there, and mind you, I knew nothing about Islam and the Koran in those days. There are tens of millions of more reasons (mainly those killed by Islam for various reasons), but I’d develop carpel tunnel before I made a dent. What I am proposing will probably play to a more receptive audience once the Louvre' is burned to the Ground, or The London Bridge is in ruins...Or the Black Forest is torched. www.jihadwatch.org /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2135   (16331 words)

Blogcritics.org: Watching the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid Watching the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid We can also wonder how things might have gone if the Burning had been undertaken by famously conventional Mick Hucknall, who is surely much better able to afford it, rather than by renowned anarcho-pranksters the K Foundation. I don't think so; the Burning is of a species of activity which Debord called detournement, which is neither didactic nor dialectic; you don't stand around explaining detournement. blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/25/035555.php   (1483 words)

45 - Bill Drummond As a trustee of the K Foundation he has burned a million quid. Among the most noteworthy aspects of his art is his constant effort to destroy it -- from erasing back catalogues and constantly self-destructing to the burning of the million quid. He might be tired of it, but what he devotes to these scenes from the past is certainly of interest to his readers, offering additional insight from a welcome persepective (as, for example, even such a small piece as the one about the Beograd screening of the K Foundation film does). www.complete-review.com /reviews/drummb/bd45.htm   (1680 words)

Library of Mu - We didn't set out to make a film, we set out to burn 1m The film, Watch The K-Foundation Bum A Million Quid, was first screened on Jura two weeks ago and then at Manchester's In The City convention on Tuesday (September 5). THE K FOUNDATION, who recorded a track for the Bosnian 'Help' album, have premiered their new film which shows them burning UKP1 million on the Scottish Isle of Jura in 1994. After the film was shown in Manchester, K Foundation members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty held a question and answer session under the heading 'Is It Rock'n'Roll?'. www.libraryofmu.org /display-resource.php?id=463   (1059 words)

Art Terrorism On the first anniversary of the burning Cauty and Drummond returned to Jura to premiere the film Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in the village hall. Sole use of the film of the money burning was given to Gimpo and the ashes were made into a brick & being the physical embodiment of the K Foundation.] There they painted a contract onto the car agreeing to end the K Foundation for a period of 23 years. positivevoid.co.uk /page9.html   (368 words)

Find in a Library: K Foundation burn a million quid Watch the K Foundation burn a million quid (Motion picture) Find in a Library: K Foundation burn a million quid WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/fdbd4db37ac8e034a19afeb4da09e526.html   (50 words)

First Online Church of "Bob": Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid The Graven Image of "Bob" Dobbs, including the image displayed on this World Wide Web site as the Dobbs Icon, is a registered trademark of The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Originally they were going to destroy the tapes as well, leaving it to be in the realm of mystery whether or not the burning had actually happened. modemac.com /cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Watch_The_K_Foundation_Burn_A_Million_Quid   (473 words)

The KLF чтиво Gimpo's 25 'Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid'. The mother of parliament's bastard son will have burned down the palace, raped the Princess of Wales and taken a shit in your girlfriend's handbag. To burn the Union Jack is just a waste of a good tea towel. www.trancentral.ru /04_chtivo/text_25.htm   (3002 words)

quid On 7 March the K Foundation screened Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in the Northampton living room of writer and occultist Alan Moore. You didn't burn Art (the pictures on the notes are okay, but you wouldn't want them on your wall); you didn't burn Literature -both of these things are burnt every day; you didn't burn people. By burning it, essentially you're saying, 'I don't believe in this' which is a dangerous thing to say you're fucking with the magic. www.geocities.com /magicofalanmoore/quid/quid.html   (1476 words)

Alan Goodrick He filmed (and owns the print of), the Watch The K-Foundation Burn A Million Quid film, drove Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to the top of the world (as recounted in Bad Wisdom), and was the ski-masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when Rachel Whiteread came to claim the K Foundation art award. He is most well known as a friend and collaborator of the KLF and K Foundation. He is currently an underground/alternative arts film maker and is frequently involved with both Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's current projects. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Alan-Goodrick.htm   (551 words)

Library of Mu - Money To Burn The K Foundation have no particular regard for their financial security, but their relationship to that million is more complex. I first met the K Foundation last November, 10 days before their award of £40,000 for the artist responsible for the worst body of work in the preceding 12 months. If what the K Foundation did was art, and I am not the person to judge that, then this piece is the beginning of the art work. www.libraryofmu.org /display-resource.php?id=387   (3853 words)

[KLF] K Foundation @ Switzerland Well so far so good but I couldn't believe what I saw around the machine: There are three video screens around the machine and on this screens there is an endless loop of one film: Watch the K Foundation burn a million quid!!!!! The exposition is in a golden pavillon, watch the following link for a small picture of it: http://www.expo.02.ch/e/home/finallisteartes/bienne/exposition/argent You will also find a short description of the exposition. They have a lot of different artworks about money, films about money and other related stuff. mailman.xmission.com /pipermail/klf/2002-May/001000.html   (610 words)

Sunday Herald, The: Serbia's underground protests with a smile IN September 1995, Bill Drummond, pop star, writer and situationist prankster was invited by Belgrade's renegade radio station B92 to premire his infamous film Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid in the capital's Republic Square. In this now legendary piece of home video, the band did exactly what it said on the tin: filmed themselves burning a million quid. This was a country which had, after all, experienced an inflation rate of 313,563,558% in the month of January 1994, so the Serbians knew better than anyone how worthless paper money could become. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20010415/ai_n13958282   (578 words)

THE K FOUNDATION 'Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid' is a 63 minute film of unedited footage. The aims of The K Foundation were undefined but were once stated to be The Advancement of Creation. On the 5th November 1995, Cauty and Drummond signed a contract agreeing to end The K Foundation for a period of 23 years. www.asa.de /magazine/iss1/12k_found.htm   (271 words)

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