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  • 'BATTLE POETICS' and 'OTHER ISSUES'

    A project on alternative currencies by Emilio Moreno
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  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Beautiful Money (Art as Currency, Art as…

    An article on Money, Art and Value by Sal Randolph

  • The Swap Box Project

    Take Somethin', Leave Somethin'

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

  • 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

  • Swop:art

    Achieving zero waste and non-consumption featuring art swop.
  • 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
  • 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...

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

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

  • The Note Swap

    A project by The Art House Co-op

    An organization that knows art, community and swapping.

  • 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
  • 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

  • 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...

  • STRO

    Social Trade Organisation

    Social TRade Organisation STRO is één van de weinige organisaties ter wereld die alternatieven voor het geldsysteem ontwikkelt.
  • 2010 Mike Ballard

    Whose coat is that jacket you're wearing?

    Criminal behaviour, art, or both?

    Criminal behavior, art or both? That is the question mostly asked about Mike Ballard's work. Nevertheless, during the exhibition it will be gracing our ceiling.

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • Swap a Sketch

    Toe aan een korte, verfrissende pauze op je werk of tijdens het studeren? Maak een schets en swappen maar!
  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Pebbles

    Pebbles hier, pebbles daar

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

  • Swap till you drop

    Physical, Interactive and Online Swapping

    Swap Shops and more

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