Blood Money Currency Exchange Terminal (2018 - 2023) is a participatory installation that recreates a currency exchange booth.
During this following iteration held January 2019, MCA visitors could exchange Australian dollars (AUD) for Blood Money Dollars (BMD), as part of the Sydney Festival.
Ryan Presley’s Blood Money series of watercolour paintings replace the portraits of prominent figures from Australia’s colonial history on the national currency with leaders, social advocates, warriors and writers from Aboriginal history, such as Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, Dundalli and Pemulwuy. Each day the artist set the rate of exchange at the Blood Money Currency Exchange Terminal, where Australian currency could be converted for limited edition $10, $20, $50 and $100 Blood Money Dollar prints. More information of this iteration is available here.
