Losing Time is part of the project Time Notes, which consists of three performances on video and an installation that incorporates relics from these performances. Apart from Losing Time, Time Notes also includes the segments Exchange Office [Singapore 2006] and Launching Event [Berlin 2004]. In Time Notes, Romano introduces a new currency system ? alluding to the economic crisis in Argentina ? which is based not on material value, but on the factor of time. In the Berlin performance, passers-by were asked for their opinion on the introduction of ?time notes?. In Singapore, people on the street were offered the option of, for example, exchanging a train ticket good for a one-hour trip for a ?time note? worth one hour. In Losing Time, a man on the busy shopping street Orchard Road in Singapore loses time: he holds a bundle of ?time notes? in his hand and lets a note fall from time to time. Their appearance and size resemble those of customary bank notes, but instead of displaying a monetary value, they are printed with time values and statements on the theme of money, such as ?Money is institutionalized mistrust?. While the people in the video are at first perceived merely as running after money, one can soon share their delight in the useless giveaways. [EW]