Second Burial at Le Blanc

In her exhibit at the Project Arts Center in Dublin Ireland,Sarah Browne has a curious way of refering to currencies as indigenous.
One small town in France has continued to the accept the franc for goods
and services although it is no longer legal tender and will continue to do
so until 2012. Diversity tends to complicate things but it also give stability.
Or it wastes energy so much in little transactions that people don't aspire for more.
Holding onto to old ways can work with everything except money.
The Euro seems in some ways to be taking on the role once held by the dollar. Right now the Euro is stronger than the dollar and in
many ways Americans visiting Europe probably feel more european than before.
There is a curious type of role reversal in play. Where will it all go.
Money is based so much on people's emotions. Types of emotional battles between countries come up just on the basis of money. If my currency is stronger than yours then my country must be better than yours. The major quote with the exhibit is the apocalyptic "if the euro fails we all fail". The euro doesn't seem to be failing. Everyone adopting same currency seems to have the promise of equality, but does it just mean a new type of colonialism by a euro elite. Yet at the same time the concept of Europeanism evolved as counter to both extremes nationalism and socialism, so in spite the fears, given the unavoidable facts that history presents us with the Euro seems like the best solution. These are some of the issues this piece addresses.