Wert

BRETTON WOODS: It's a phrase that has the ring of a fairy tale, but of course it's simply the name of the New Hampshire town where, in 1944, delegates from the Allied nations came together to decide how the world economy should work. Nevertheless, for most of us, the global monetary system that evolved from the Bretton Woods agreements is as darkly mysterious as anything imagined by the Brothers Grimm. In Wert (the term is German for "value") a special project for Artforum related to his new film, untitled at press time, Glasgow-based artist DUNCAN CAMPBELL relates the tale of one of this system's most influential adepts: Hans (born Johannes) Tietmeyer, renowned German economist and …