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  • 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
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  • Project: Donna Wolf

    Déiska

    Swapping artworks for business services

    Déiska is an organization that provides a broad range of business services to carefully selected young artists. The services are tailored to the needs of the young artists as they establish...
  • 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

  • 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

  • Swop:art

    Achieving zero waste and non-consumption featuring art swop.

  • 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
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994

    Paul Perry, Artist at the Side of God and Triple P

    No artistic profession has been courted more intensively by advertising in preceding decades as that of visual artist. The literary world of the sixties was startled by the huge demand for...

  • 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.
  • Project: saron paz

    Story Store

    Installation by Saron Paz

    Exchange your stories and objects in the Story Store. The Story Store was an exploration into the connections between objects, stories, and people.

  • 'BATTLE POETICS' and 'OTHER ISSUES'

    A project on alternative currencies by Emilio Moreno

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

    An interesting alternative economic system, which is used in Dutch art scene.
  • 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...

  • 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 Swap Box Project

    Take Somethin', Leave Somethin'

    A project where street art meets swapping and creates fun for the community.

  • Buy Nothing New

    Buy nothing new en ontdek wat je al hebt

    Een bewustwording van onze bezittingen.
  • Project: Matthijs de Bruijne

    Medium for Exchange

    The project Medium for Exchange by Matthijs de Bruijne started in Copenhagen in the pavilion House in Park. This very beautiful pavilion was made out of aluminum boxes and was located in the Ostre...

  • 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

  • Ruilen Blog

    Inspirerende ruilprojecten en initiatieven.

  • The Note Swap

    A project by The Art House Co-op

    An organization that knows art, community and swapping.
  • Project: Chaveli Sifre

    An eye for an eye

    Money can’t buy you this art

    An eye for an eye, a new series of works by Puerto Rican, Berlin-based artist Chaveli Sifre, consists of a collection of paintings and drawings depicting an array objects that the artist desires to...

  • Beautiful Money (Art as Currency, Art as…

    An article on Money, Art and Value by Sal Randolph

  • IN YOUR FACE

    Waarom slaan beter werkt dan schoppen

    Aandacht is goed te vergaren door gebruik te maken van het wondermiddel formaat. Een helikopter vult nou eenmaal een groter gedeelte van je netvlies dan een olijf. Maar als alles wordt opgeschaald

  • Swap till you drop

    Physical, Interactive and Online Swapping

    Swap Shops and more

  • STRO

    Social Trade Organisation

    Social TRade Organisation STRO is één van de weinige organisaties ter wereld die alternatieven voor het geldsysteem ontwikkelt.

  • 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

created Lilian Stolk modified Jolien Ruiter

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