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  • Swap Shoppe

    A lively exchange of goods and services by Lauren Schaefer

    "Never took that box to goodwill? Have homemade crafts for trade? Require help with gardening? Unsure how to fix that bike? Addicted to Craigslist’s Free section? Visit the Swap Shoppe , a lively way...
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  • Pirate Cinema

    The true world currency now seems to be energy and not the Dollar, Pound or Euro

    Energy is based on actual assets whereas currencies appear to be have become virtual money and inspire little long term confidence. Let's swap our energy.

  • The New Economy Manifesto

    "Fortunately for us, we live in the right place at the right time to explore new possibilities and implement strange outlets, which is exactly what I intend to do"

    An article by Lauren Schaeffer

  • Meta-Monumental Garage Sale

    "Maybe the Garage Sale is a methaphor of the mind"

    The Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is a multimedia installation and performance by the critically acclaimed artist Martha Rosler

  • Open Field

    A cultural commons project in the spirit of gift economy

    Open Field is an open air summer gathering in the big green yard of the Walker Art Center

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Beautiful Money (Art as Currency, Art as…

    An article on Money, Art and Value by Sal Randolph

  • 'BATTLE POETICS' and 'OTHER ISSUES'

    A project on alternative currencies by Emilio Moreno
  • Project: Lise Skou, Andrea Creutz

    Swop Network

    Swop Network was initiated in 2003 by Andrea Creutz (Copenhagen) and Lise Skou (Aarhus), as a platform for the production and dissemination of materials and ideas surrounding contemporary political

  • The Dutch Time/Bank Network

    A network of cultural institutions in the Netherlands

    Parallel micro economy based on trust and solidarity as a response to the current distrust of existing financial and economic systems and the radical cuts in art funding

  • Swap till you drop

    Physical, Interactive and Online Swapping

    Swap Shops and more

  • Lunch Swap

    Connecting Art, Food and Life

    A community project using the medium food with the means to emphasize facilitating and nurturing new beginnings as well as maintaining ongoing connections
  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Hairdresser

    Swap a haircut

    At the swapping-hairdresser you could get your hair cut once in a while, in exchange for whatever the hairdresser sees fit. Make a deal and get a new coupe. Are you a hairdresser? You were able to...

  • Swop:art

    Achieving zero waste and non-consumption featuring art swop.

  • Buurtouders Nederland

    platform voor oppas

    Buurtouders Nederland maakt het voor ouders mogelijk om op elkaars kinderen te passen. Het is een praktisch voorbeeld van ruilen in het dagelijks leven.

  • Cincinnati Time Store

    History of swapping

    Offcorse, swapping is a very old habit. But the first (conceptual) swap shop operated from May 18, 1827 until May 1830 and was very successful.

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

    An interesting alternative economic system, which is used in Dutch art scene.
  • Project: Caroline Woolard

    Cigarette Barter in WWII Berlin to America

    A selection from the Barter Archive of Caroline Woolard

    Is mutual determination a threat? Barter Archive is an archive of barter imagery, exchanged stories, comic books, economic textbooks, barter manuals, and reciprocity agreements.

  • Jaap en de bonenstaak

    De goedgelovige ruil

    Een Brits volkssprookje uit 1890
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Over Datum Eetclub 1

    Shells and Crusts with Tinda van Smoorenburg

    The first in our series of weekly dinner parties kicked off on Tuesday July 19th to a hungry crowd filling Mediamatic bank. It resulted in the successful resistance against the demonization of...

  • Satan

    Ruil je ziel voor eeuwige luxe

    Satan verschijnt op verschillende wijze in de loop der eeuwen en is volgens sommige nog altijd aanwezig.
  • Project: Carolina Caycedo

    Day to Day

    Personalized exchanges

    Artist Carolina Caycedo trades personal possessions and services. She creates art that discusses concepts of boundaries such as those between producers and consumers, professionals and amateurs

  • Pebbles

    Pebbles hier, pebbles daar

    Verhuizen, boeken, kleding, schilderen, speelgoed, postzegels, laminaat leggen, massagecursus, alles samen ruilen.

  • Alternative economic systems

    Artistic Practices, Ideas, Concepts

    Models for economic systems that provide an alternative to the dominant monetary economy
  • Project: Antonio Vega Macotela

    Time Divisa

    Fulfilling wishes of prisoners for their artworks

    Time Divisa (2006-2010) is a project by Mexican artist Antonio Vega Macotela, that explores the possibility of replacing money with a time-sharing system. It consists of 365 individual exchanges with...

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