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{{Short description|Art foundation set up by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = K Foundation | image = K Foundation - Time is running out.jpg | caption = An early K Foundation advert: "Time is running in" | image_size = 130 | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = United Kingdom | genre = | years_active = 1993β1995 | label = | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = | past_members = [[Jimmy Cauty]]<br/>[[Bill Drummond]] }} The '''K Foundation''' was an art foundation set up by [[Jimmy Cauty]] and [[Bill Drummond]], formerly of [[The KLF]], in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF income. Between 1993 and 1995, they spent this money in a number of ways, including on a series of [[Situationist International|Situationist]]-inspired press adverts and extravagant subversions in the art world, focusing in particular on the [[Turner Prize]]. Most notoriously, when their plans to use [[banknotes]] as part of a work of [[art]] fell through, they [[K Foundation Burn a Million Quid|burned a million pounds in cash]]. The K Foundation announced a 23-year [[wiktionary:moratorium|moratorium]] on all projects from November 1995. They further indicated that they would not speak about the burning of the million pounds during the period of this moratorium.
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