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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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  • 'BATTLE POETICS' and 'OTHER ISSUES'

    A project on alternative currencies by Emilio Moreno
  • 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...

  • The Note Swap

    A project by The Art House Co-op

    An organization that knows art, community and swapping.
  • 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

  • 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.

  • Swop:art

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

  • Jaap en de bonenstaak

    De goedgelovige ruil

    Een Brits volkssprookje uit 1890

  • 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

  • Swap a Sketch

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

  • 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

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

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

  • 'Truc Troc'

    Moneyless

    Artists and art lovers meeting each other and making interesting swap deals.

  • Buy Nothing New

    Buy nothing new en ontdek wat je al hebt

    Een bewustwording van onze bezittingen.

  • Swapping lives

    A book by Jane Green

    What happens when two women swap lives.

  • Noppes.nl

    Niet voor niks wel voor noppes

    Als grootste ruilnetwerk van Amsterdam een 'collega' van onze swapshop.

  • 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

  • Pebbles

    Pebbles hier, pebbles daar

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Let's Swap

    Why did we ever stop swapping?

    An accesible platform for swapping your art.

created Lilian Stolk modified Annabel Storm

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