Astrid Bin

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S. Astrid Bin, (b. May 14, 1979) is a Canadian performance and media artist. Her work centres around audiences and communication, often using humour and non-traditional artistic presentation to include the audience in the spectacle. The simplicity of her performances and her use of time duration often garner comparisons to Yoko Ono and Marina Abramovic.

Most notably, in 2005 she completed a performative documentary piece on making a million dollars in a year, called My Million Dollar Year. This year-long performance, documented both on camera and online on the subject of money questions the role of money, what it means, and what it takes to make some. The piece was met with both liberal praise and hate mail ranging from mocking to death threats. The total gained in the project was $5678.10, $994,321.90 short of her goal.