Credit crunch: Destroying machine makes a hit at London's Frieze

The installation is made from hundreds of components, including cogs, wheels, handsaws and goat skulls.

A visitor gives a working credit card to the machine’s operator, a pen is placed in an arm of the machine, and after being triggered by a foot switch, the machine jerks into life and creates a piece of abstract art on a pad of paper. The visitor’s credit card is then fed through a chipping machine attached to the installation and splintered into pieces.

This elaborate means of destroying a credit card is in keeping with the Anarconomy Decade. Although the components of the machine are elaborate, the installation provides visitors with a piece of art that is by proxy, made by the artist.