Page 57 |
Save page Remove page | Previous | 57 of 70 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large (1000x1000 max)
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
51
With Time/Bank, Aranda and Vidokle intend to create an international network based on exchanges of time in the form of skills and services. It would, they planned, operate as a parallel and alternative micro-economy for artists and cultural producers. In their own words, the Time/Bank e-flux:
is a platform where artists, curators, writers and other people in our field, can exchange time and skills— help each other get things done without using money. In a more idealistic way, the Time/Bank can become a place where certain types of actions and ideas, that seem to have no value in our market-driven society, can gain a sense of worth.100
The notion of working in parallel with and/or outside of the market that the Time/Bank project implies can be viewed as a practice that encourages autonomous and self-organized actions. Echoing the way in which Caycedo’s Daytoday project requires self-identification and determination of the notion of value, Time/Bank requires that its participants negotiate actual value and the notion of value for themselves in non-monetary terms or conditions. Participants position the value of their knowledge, skills and time detached from the limited space of monetary market-driven notions.
Unlike barter, which is a characteristic of pre-capitalist societies and perhaps informal economies, time banks operate by replacing currency with time dollars. The concept of time dollars is often credited to Edgar S. Cahn. In his 2004 book No More Throw Away –People: The Co-Production Imperative, Cahn suggests the idea that, free from monetary dependence, time dollars have the capacity to valorize the time, skills, and knowledge that individuals share with each other for mutual benefits, thus strengthening
100Time/Bank / E-flux," Shows / E-flux, accessed September 17, 2010, http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8587.
Object Description
| Title | Mejor vida/better life and day-to-day exchanges: Networks of social exchange in contemporary arts practice |
| Author | Anderson, Joy Angela |
| Author email | joy.anderson@usc.edu; majikalnature@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-08 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Decter, Joshua |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Owen Driggs, Janet Gonzalez, Rita |
| Abstract | The current economic crisis has brought attention and criticism to a dominant global economic system that is characterized by the goal of exponential expansion in pursuit of private monetary profit. In this thesis I explore the possibility for social and participatory art to invoke, inspire and mobilize action towards alternative sustainable systems of economic exchange. Generosity and non-monetary exchange as a social practice and artistic strategy provide a space for artists and audiences to perform models of alternative economies in the social/public sphere. While they also cultivate a network of social and cultural capital that values shared time and resources for mutual benefit. Using tactics evocative of feminist artists of the 1970s, the art projects considered in this text experiment with ways to live independent of, and in resistance to, the corporate market. My discussion focuses on the socially engaged art projects of artists Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo, and the Time/Bank initiated by artists Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda of e-flux. I reveal how their art projects perform creative models towards an economic paradigm shift, while positioning social and participatory public art practice as models towards sustainable lifestyles. |
| Keyword | social practice; generosity and non-monetary exchange in contemporary art; non-object art; Latin American artists; Mexican artists; Interventionist art; public art; public practice; feminist art; participatory art; alternative economies; barter; time bank; time currency; environmental sustainable lifestyles; economic sustainability; global corporate capitalism; global economic paradigm; art activism; paradigm shift; environmental and social justice; temporary autonomous zone; relational aesthetics; social capital; conceptualism; DIY; globalization; gift economies |
| Coverage date | 1970/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3921 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Anderson, Joy Angela |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-anderson-4448 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-anderson-4448.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 57 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 51 With Time/Bank, Aranda and Vidokle intend to create an international network based on exchanges of time in the form of skills and services. It would, they planned, operate as a parallel and alternative micro-economy for artists and cultural producers. In their own words, the Time/Bank e-flux: is a platform where artists, curators, writers and other people in our field, can exchange time and skills— help each other get things done without using money. In a more idealistic way, the Time/Bank can become a place where certain types of actions and ideas, that seem to have no value in our market-driven society, can gain a sense of worth.100 The notion of working in parallel with and/or outside of the market that the Time/Bank project implies can be viewed as a practice that encourages autonomous and self-organized actions. Echoing the way in which Caycedo’s Daytoday project requires self-identification and determination of the notion of value, Time/Bank requires that its participants negotiate actual value and the notion of value for themselves in non-monetary terms or conditions. Participants position the value of their knowledge, skills and time detached from the limited space of monetary market-driven notions. Unlike barter, which is a characteristic of pre-capitalist societies and perhaps informal economies, time banks operate by replacing currency with time dollars. The concept of time dollars is often credited to Edgar S. Cahn. In his 2004 book No More Throw Away –People: The Co-Production Imperative, Cahn suggests the idea that, free from monetary dependence, time dollars have the capacity to valorize the time, skills, and knowledge that individuals share with each other for mutual benefits, thus strengthening 100Time/Bank / E-flux," Shows / E-flux, accessed September 17, 2010, http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8587. |
