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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.
  • Criticism
  • Cinema
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  • Fine Art

  • 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

  • 'BATTLE POETICS' and 'OTHER ISSUES'

    A project on alternative currencies by Emilio Moreno

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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 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...

  • 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

  • Swop:art

    Achieving zero waste and non-consumption featuring art swop.

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

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

  • The Swap Box Project

    Take Somethin', Leave Somethin'

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

  • Beautiful Money (Art as Currency, Art as…

    An article on Money, Art and Value by Sal Randolph

  • Swap till you drop

    Physical, Interactive and Online Swapping

    Swap Shops and more
  • 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: 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

  • 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.

  • The Note Swap

    A project by The Art House Co-op

    An organization that knows art, community and swapping.

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...
  • 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...

  • Swap a Sketch

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

  • Eco-Swap

    Eco-friendly swaps dedicated to sustainable, organic goods and services

    Ask for what you need Offer what you can

  • Citizens and Subjects

    een asielzoekersterugkeercentrum als een binnenstebuiten gekeerde readymade

    De BBC spreekt gewooon over deporatiecentra, maar Rita Verdonk noemt het vergoeielijkend "terugkeercentra" en het klinkt in haar mond zo ongeveer als een eerste stap op weg naar het Paradijs. Uit te...

  • STRO

    Social Trade Organisation

    Social TRade Organisation STRO is één van de weinige organisaties ter wereld die alternatieven voor het geldsysteem ontwikkelt.
  • Katja Novitskova 17 Oct 2011

    New Order: a list of Usefull and Useless…

    Links, images, videos and other materials enough to immerse any outsider into energy-based realities of our existence and potential collapse

    This info-matter stream is a collection of things we keep finding online in relation to the main themes of New Order project. Mostly they are about energy, ecology and 'green' economy. Some of it is...

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