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The Richest Family; The Early Episodes is a project by artist Floris Schönfeld in collaboration with Frank Chu. At the center of The Richest Family; The Early Episodes is the internal world of Frank Chu, intergalactic movie star and well-known San Francisco Bay Area protestor. Frank believes that he is the victim of an intergalactic conspiracy that is based around him being the star of a popular television sitcom called The Richest Family. This show features him and his family and is recorded without his consent and broadcast to huge audiences in a number of alternate galaxies known as the 12 Galaxies. He can often be found at large public demonstrations in the San Francisco Bay Area protesting for impeachment of various public figures who he sees as complicit in this conspiracy. For the work The Richest Family; The Early Episodes two bootleg episodes of the television show The Richest Family were made. As well as staring in the episodes Frank was instrumental in the co-directing, and scripting of the pieces together with artist Floris Schönfeld. The Richest Family; The Early Episodes will be the first episodes of The Richest Family to be seen on Earth that have Frank?s full consent.

Frank Chu (b. 1960, Oakland, California, US; based in Oakland) is a professional protester and intergalactic television and movie star. He studied Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley; California State University, Hayward; Merritt College, Oakland; and Laney College, Oakland, before receiving an Associate?s Degree in Business Administration from The College of Alameda, California, US. Since 1998, Chu has presented his ongoing series of signs in daily protests throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His work is the subject of "Jretdrostrenikal Exhibitions", an ongoing and undefined solo exhibition at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2012-ongoing); and he has recently participated in group exhibitions including "Portable Holes", San Francisco Pavilion, 9th Shanghai Biennale, China (2012); "Sõida tasa üle silla (Ride gently over the bridge)", Galerii Noorus, ART IST KUKU NU UT Festival, Tartu, Estonia (2012); and "Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present", Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, US (2008). Floris Schönfeld (1982) is a visual artist currently based in London and San Francisco. He works mainly with film and performance. The focus of his work in the last years has been the relationship between fiction and belief. In his work he is constantly trying to find the line between defining his context and being defined by it. In 2010, Floris completed the multi-disciplinary project ?u? in which he reconstructed the first ever authentic Klingon opera on Earth and made the film The QiH Act based on the performance of the opera for an entirely Klingon audience. In 2011, he made the film Discours de Fou as part of the International Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and in 2012 he was commissioned to make work for the San Francisco Pavilion at the 12th International Shanghai Biennale. Schönfeld?s work has been shown at many film festivals and intsitutions throughout the world including the Amsterdam Film Biennale, Rencontres International Paris/Madrid/Berlin, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Kassel Documentary & Film Festival (where it was nominated for the A38-Prodcution Grant) and the Kadist Foundation in San Francisco. Floris is currently a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.