Event
#TRANSACTING: A MARKET OF VALUES
11 Jul 2015
Event times
12.00 - 5.00
Cost of entry
Free and open to all.
16 John Islip Street
Address
- 16 John Islip Street
- London
United Kingdom - SW1P 4JU
- United Kingdom
This bustling pop-up market will feature artists, designers, civil-society groups, academics, ecologists, activists and others who creatively explore existing structures of evaluation and actively produce new ones.
About
It's not a conference, not an art fair and definitely not an exhibition.
This bustling pop-up market will feature 50+ stalls that creatively explore existing systems of evaluation and actively produce new ones: a skillshare, a peoples bureau, organ donation, an economy of promises, commoners, a fablab, a bring your own BBQ, virtuous communities, a speakers’ corner—even a kiosk buying tears. Multiple currencies will circulate, not all of them monetary.
Whilst the values of competitive markets dominate contemporary life, including art and its education, other kinds can and do coexist. #TransActing will nurture and celebrate these other value relations in a spectacular one-day event.
Stallholders and Other Contributors
Stallholders and Other Contributors
5 minute art conversations •
Discuss the role of art and the of artists in the 21st century, generate experimental sounds and explore art in the lives of non-artists
50/50 •
Promoting legislation which would mean all parties have to put forward at least 50% women candidates in the Scottish Parliament and Council elections
A fictional travel agency of medical tourism examining the negotiation between state and citizen through reproductive rights and technologies
Emily Ballard
A new trade union for professional visual and applied artists
Stall selling Sicilian arancini at bargained-down prices
The Bricklayer and the Artist •
Pablode Laborde Lascaris and Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre
A sculpture-performance about learning from the construction industry: knowledge transfer through bricklaying
Bring-Your-Own-BBQFood •
BBQ and chill-out area with furniture constructed from recycled artworks. Bring your own faire and Francis will cook it up
The Bureau of Exchanges •
This conversion table will deal across the tangible, abstract and emotive currents in the market. A microcosmic increase in personal investment in human exchange may reflect a macrocosmic revaluation of ecological consequences of economic transactions.
CASSE – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Promoting the steady state economy as a desirable alternative to economic growth.
Tobias Benedetto, Molly Butt, Cici Kang, Karel Doing, John Hartley, Anna Minshall & Deniz Paran
Invite you to join them mining, untying and reweaving traces of the Anthropocene
Collecting Keywords •
Specificity, value, search, nomenclature: Creating a collective ‘folksonomy’, reflecting ‘A Market of Values.’
Creative Resilient London • Ezio Manzini
Community building and place making in the city.
At Manzini’s stall, good examples of creative communities in London are exchanged with general ideas on the cultures of resilience and on design for social innovation.
Pita Arreola, Elliott Burns, Jake Charles Rees, Spela Pipan, Louise Laage Toft, Yusi Xiong
Curation has extended into nigh on every facet of our lives - even the food in your fridge. ‘Curated This!’ returns to the concept of curator as caretaker, except caring for community rather than object
Georgia Brown, David Cross and Amy McDonnell
Calling for University of the Arts to end their financial support for the fossil fuel industry. The campaign starts here challenging UAL to express their values in an exchange of signatures.
Emotional Baggage Handling Service •
Barley Massey and Belle Tidswell
Transacting Communication, Reflection and Emotions
The Finance(-ing)-System for Art-Dealing •
The Finance(ing)-System for Art-Dealing represents an alternative financing model for projects using Koch-Shares, an artwork in the form of stocks, currency, participatory notes and money
Finding Money, London & Paris •
Carla Cruz and Antonio Contador
Antonio and Carla’s project explores the social, political and creative repercussions related to the everyday occurrence of finding money on the street
Fortune Cookies •
300 Limited Edition Custom-made Fortune Cookies will be created to initiate discourse about the value we place on readymade objects
From a letter to the teacher to Letter to the System •
The Common and Josh Y'Barbo Reimagining (art and design) education
Participants are invited to contribute to a giant dolls’ house, which can be put up for sale. Bidders are invited to buy and redecorate effecting a doll’s housing market.
Virtuous communities - get fit do good. A group of runners that combine regular exercise with helping out in communities
Hallucinatron 5000™ Micro-Hallucinatory Theatre •
Exploring ‘readings’ of psychic distress in a transformative exchange, guiding the user into an expanded consciousness
In Passing •
An encounter on success and failure; choreography of the mind will be stimulated using a toolkit of senses including olfactory potions and storytelling
Invaluable Movement •
A workshop exploring the value of moving together using Capoeira Angola and Contact Improvisation exercises to unpack the subtlety of cooperation, competition and individual action within a group
Jacob’s Ladder is a small, ethical company who raise their own cattle. They will be selling beef burgers, demonstrating how costings of their products are calculated
Liquid Memory •
Transacting in the substances of remembrance.
As a prop to trigger memory exchange, liquor will be infused with the ambiences of places, people, situations
Listening Stall •
Mark McDonnell
A workshop on listening as an approach to the other. Perhaps we all want someone to listen to us without judging, censoring or imposing themselves upon us?
The London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank •
The stall will promote the importance and value of Brain Donation and will include craft activities for adults and children which may be kept or donated to the stall gallery
Lo Scarto (Touch) •
The space between people as residue and difference and the knowledge of each other is embedded in objects produced in a process of visualisation through touch (prelinguistic)
Management Architecture Research
MAR interrogates the architecture of management structures in relation to ethical issues. mar focuses on institutions engaged in teaching and learning of art and design
http://managementarchitectureresearch.info/
Master of the Universe •
A new performative work that considers the cost of academic life under neoliberalism
Mending for Others •
Textiles Environment Design •Becky Earley & Bridget Harvey
The act of mending our clothes needs a total reinvention; this stall invites you to mend for other people, to mend as ‘giftivism’, to mend as a social bond
Millbank Creative Works • Wilfried Rimensberger
Creative upcycyling in the local community
@MillbankW
The stall will showcase the research – theorizing – publishing project as part of a series of interventions and provocations drawing from autonomous politics and avant-garde aesthetics
Mint(ed) •
Mint is one of the most undervalued herbs around, but the robust plant has remarkable currency - even used as tax payment in biblical Egypt. A lucky dip of mint will revitalise & sweeten passersby
Money Weaver •
At the Money Weaver stall, the visitor will be able to give two banknotes of £5 and get them shredded and then woven into one banknote
Music By the Meter •
Imagine a shoe repair stall, but instead of replacing heels it sells music by the meter. If you don’t want your music off the peg, bring along a cassette & have a new piece assembled while-you-wait
Open Circle Feedback (Ceramic Version) •
Dan and Trish Scott
YOUR OPINION MATTERS! Whether you want to share a thought, ask a question, trial an idea or just let off steam in an open space of live critique and evaluation
Open School East was founded in 2013, responding to spiralling tuition fees and student debt. It was instituted as an experimental, versatile and collaborative space for artistic learning and production
Open Values •
Metod Blejec and Taja
OpenValues is developing a platform for a worldwide community of individuals and organizations build on shared values, work ethics, beliefs and passions
Organ Donation & Palpation of the Spleen •
Angela Hodgson-Teall and James Van Der Walt
Organ donation is a generous act, requiring empathy with an unknown other. Gift today.
Eva Sajovic, Rebecca Davies and the People's Bureau community
An artist-led participatory project activating an exchange of skills and needs based in a dedicated shopping cart in Elephant & Castle will travel to Chelsea Parade Ground.
Creating sustainable human habitats by following nature’s patterns with Permablitz a social experiment emulating the give and take exemplified by the soil-food-web.
For 33 years Platform has combined arts, education, activism and research in projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice.
Platform
http://platformlondon.org/
@PlatformLondon
Photographing Girls Archive •
Imagery from pro-am photography manuals that utilise the male gaze and viewpoint to photograph women... in order to sell products or just to consume women?
Portable Darkroom •
BBKP: Savvas Papasavva, Nathan Birchenough, Nicholas Brown, Craig Kao
When was the last time you physically developed or printed a photograph? A self-made, portable darkroom revealing the tools and methods needed to create chemical-based photographs
Promise Exchange •
In exchange for refreshment, people promise to make a small intervention over the following week to help combat stigma detrimental to preconceptions about mental health
Reading Aloud: Eden of the Dispossessed •
Ruth Maclennan
The fifth Reading Aloud performance by the artist. The project seeks to reclaim public space for intellectual exchange through cultivating the pleasures of reading and listening to words read out loud.
Records Store • thickear: Geoff Howse, Jack James, Kevin Logan and Tadeo Sendon
A thickear sound recording artifact can be acquired by members of the public in exchange for personal data in an exploration of the ethics and economies of data transactions
Rejuce • Tom Fletcher and Friends
Recycle and refresh with juice made from mindless waste
Exploring greed and selflessness, authority and deference, demand and obeyance, drama and power...
Rivers Project •
While serving water to drink, Silvia creates conversations about the importance of rivers, their ecosystems and other natural resources
An alternative un-accredited postgraduate program run by its students and supported by a growing circle of visiting lecturers and tutors
Speaker’s Corner
A platform open for everyone to stand up, and voice their concerns, visions and values, enacting our belief in the free and unconstrained exchange of ideas; speakers include: AltGen, Mark McGowan, Valeria Graziano, United Voices of the World and many more besides
Our speakers' corner was created by Chelsea College of Arts' Interior and Spatial Design Summer School Staff: Shibboleth Shechter, Xavi Llarch Font, Carolina Caicedo
BA & FDA ISD Student Ambassadors: Zahra Khan, Nadia Rodrigues Pedrosa, Shukri Sultan
A Level Art and Design students from: Addey and Stanhope School,
Cheam High School, Pimlico Academy, Edmonton County High School, Eastbury Comprehensive School, Carshalton Boys School and Burntwood High School for Girls
Speculative values: Science Fiction Short Stories •
Reading a selection of science fiction short stories at hourly intervals chosen for their sense of cognitive estrangement, and for their engagement with ideas related to value
Stupid Club •
A look at the fragility that defines rock/pop stars; the brevity of their lives paradoxically ensures the enduring nature of their (posthumous) careers.
Surreal-Toy-Making workshop •
Jennie Fagerstrom/Machines Room
Learn how to incorporate LED lights and conductive thread in this surreal-toy-making workshop!
Tarot Readings £5 •
Rosalie decided to make her own deck of tarot cards, which she now offers to read at art events but also in shops, in the streets and in markets.
Tear Dealer •
AlicjaRogalska and Łukasz Surowiec
A pop-up stall where anyone can produce and sell their tears for cash. It creates a space for the collective experience of sadness as work.
Very Vertex •
Selling toys, bubble guns and other fun things for kids.
Wearable Art •
The stall will showcase 'wearable art’ - handmade perspex jewellery- which questions the value of art, its distribution and consumption.
Weave Exchange •
A collection of objects originally made using natural plant materials found on location, which will question the value of making and work, as well as locality, ecology and sustainability
Weighting Matter •
Weight is a measurement of how much the force of gravity acts on a given amount of mass – weighing and balancing everyday objects
Xenospaces •
Exploring the construction of 'xenospaces' - fictional but functional spaces of money, finance, boundaries, taxation, cartography and discourses of inclusion, exclusion and exception
#TransActing is presented by Critical Practice and forms part of CCW Graduate School's Public Programme
Critical Practice is: a cluster of individual artists, designers, curators and other researchers. Through our Aims we intend to support critical practice within art, the field of culture and organisation.
Critical Practice is formed by: Metod Blejec, Marsha Bradfield, Neil Cummings, Neil Farnan, Angela Hodgson-Teal, Karem Ibrahim, Catherine Long, Amy McDonnell, Claire Mokrauer-Madden, Eva Sajovic, Kuba Szreder, Sissu Tarka and many more besides.
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http://www.ccwgraduateschool.org/
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Free and open to all.