Artworks
Ruilen showed work by artists who question and narrate the practice of exchange. These are the works that were on display either temporarily or permanently in the exhibition.
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Mediamatic Fabriek Lina Issa
What if, if I take your place?
2Dec 2012- Every Thursday and Sunday Lina Issa was available for a talk21Dec 2012Lina has been placing an advertisement in different cities, online and in newspapers, asking people if she could take their place in one situation or another in their life. For an hour, a day, a...
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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...
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Performance: Maria Mavridou, Sayaka Akitsu
Gracefully Entangled in a Whirlpool of Exchange
Performance by Sayaka Akitsu and Maria Mavridou
Sayaka and Maria included different manners of expression in their performance. They drew, sung, made rules for new games, and danced symmetrically, depending on the situation.
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SwapUpShop
Learn to question the notion of value
Working together with actors, designers, children, artists and thinkers, the SwapUpShop workshops tackled issues questioning the visual representation of value, the playful dimensions and the...
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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.
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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.
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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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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...
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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
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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...
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OurGoods
Barter network for the creative community
OurGoods is a community of artists, designers, and cultural producers who want to barter skills, spaces, and objects. With the OurGoods flyer you can find in the exhibition, you can start a trade...
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Barter
A video made by SOSka Group
SOSka Group is an Ukrainian artist-collective. In Barter they bring a number of well-known art reproductions with them to rural Ukraine. They ask locals what they would give in return for one of the...
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Work Dress
For barter only
Between an apron and a tool belt, this dress is made for work and can only be obtained by bartering. The Work Dress has been bartered with people in exchange for a website, photo sessions, research...
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Bijna Gratis
Wendela Hubrecht had a great idea. She furnished the KijkRuime (Amsterdam Noord) as though it were her livingroom and invited neighborhood locals to come and swap their holiday snapshots for objects...