In No One We Trust, 2013
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
June 30-July 1, 2013
In No One We Trust, a performance by Chang in collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros' Dream Home Resource Center at the Hammer Museum. Koumoundouros' project addressed the immateriality of real estate transactions and the shift from home as emblem of the American dream to house as commodity.
The artist poses as a mortgage fraud expert at a help desk in the Hammer Museum's Lobby Gallery, surreptitiously embedding a legal contract into the second and third pages of the Hammer's triplicate waiver form. The performance consisted of all persuasive means employed by the artist to convince museum visitors to sign the triplicate waiver form, thereby also executing the underlying legal contract printed underneath on carbon copy paper. The underlying contract legally obligated each visitor to pay the artist $5000.00, and to become Hammer contributors at the Patron level. The performance was a re-enactment of the top three schemes of mortgage fraud perpetrators- the “Bait & Switch,” the” Fee-Before-Service,” and the “Misdirect.”
In No One We Trust, 2013, 16 x 20 in., archival inkjet print
