Money and Art

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Possibly art?

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Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, 2013/14

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Barbara Bernát, Imagined Hungarian Euro banknotes, 2015 - https://www.behance.net/gallery/19414395/Hungarian-paper-money

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http://variantstudio.com/money-cube/

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Hands Up Don't Shoot!

This blog features images of currency that have been stamped with the "Hands Up!" rubber stamp....

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In Drones We Trust - http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/

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The Diggers, 1967

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Emily Erb, Legal Tender, 2013 - http://www.emilyerb.com/

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http://www.dadara.nl/

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Zachary Gough, Bourdieux: A Social Currency, 2014 - http://zacharygough.ca/bourdieux-a-social-capital-currency/

BOURDIEUX is a currency, a game and a medium of exchange for social commodities and services. It was originally designed for trade between the participants of the Spectres of Evaluation conference in Melbourne, Australia (February 2014), but was also presented at the Open Engagement conference at the Queens Museum in New York (May 2014), and at the Portland Art Museum for Assembly, a Social Practice Get-together (June 2014).  

At the beginning, the currency is distributed in correlation with the hierarchies present at the conference: keynotes get the most, presenters and panelists get lots, artists get some, attendees get just a bit, and the general public get none at all.  

People are invited to exchange the currency for information and items of social value in whatever way they see fit. Email addresses, ideas, inspiration, influence, contact information, inside jokes, url links, website coordinates, pdfs are bought, sold and traded with Bourdieux. 

Participants are encouraged to discuss how they generate power in an art context, who accumulates social capital in socially engaged art works.   At the end of the conference, participants use their accumulated wealth of Bourdieux to bid in an auction for prizes rich in social capital. 

The project aims to reveal the economy of social and cultural capital already present within the discipline and at conferences for socially engaged art.  It also shows how our economies of power mimic or operate under similar rules to our financial economy.  Further, the project presents currency as an abstracted representation of our social relationships and explores the danger of quantifying value.

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Claudia Maté, Sweet Finances!, 2014 - http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/yes-even-the-financial-market-can-be-beautiful

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http://www.stockburger.at/qe/

Stockburger transfers quantitative easing from the stock market to the streets – to the terrain of the general public whose social climate is reflected in its level of debt. A golden cylinder serves the artist as the “central bank,” which randomly distributes euro coins in the street. While the financial system mainly serves commercial banks, everybody may make a grab and become an agent of distribution here.

Stockburger‘s intervention in the public realm raises the pressing question what money, the creation of value, and distributive justice mean to us. What are their social, economic and artistic fictions based on? Which desires do they fulfil? Quantitative Easing (for the street) reminds us that the streets are the sites of conflict and “social transactions” (Stockburger) where capital is not everything that matters and aesthetic, social and political wealth is realized.

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Cooper Jacoby - http://cooperjacoby.com/

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Money and Art: An Interview with Max Haiven

This interview appeared in the Spring 2014 issue (vol.2, issue.2) of Crit.

Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at NSCAD University. In a previously unpublished interview conducted in October 2013, Haiven corresponds with IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands) about his multifaceted research, teaching, collection, exhibition, event and publishing…

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Nick Darmstaedter, Cross Bow, 2013, Oxidized copper on canvas - http://www.enterstillhouse.com/nick-darmstaedter/

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Here Comes the Money: Solar Power and Self-Determination in Western Sahara - Creative Time Reports

Artist Mel Chin proposes a Western Saharan currency, backed by solar power, that would help the Sahrawi people achieve independence while also combatting climate change.