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does the Time/Bank model differ from its precedents, and what are the advantages of positioning a time bank within the framework of a social and participatory public art practice?
e-flux’s Time/Bank website garners listings that read like classified ads and/or Craigslist postings. Time/Bank members are free to propose anything from conceptual art projects to practical service or advice. Among recent listings for example, the “Crowdsourcing Art Project” offers one time/bank hour in exchange for an image based on the participant’s interpretation of a “word of the day”; while the “Stars Project” offers 24 hours to participants who will display the night sky in real time, via webcam, on their computer monitors. Job related listings include such requests as: “Need a P/T Developer for GIFTFLOW.org,” and offer anywhere from six to forty hours in exchange for website coding. Other offers and requests encompass shelter, transportation, proofreading and translations. Someone in Chicago who has access to “a university library proper” for example, offers one hour of their time to scan articles and PDFs for anyone working on a research project and in need of assistance. A listing under the category “general advice” from a member located in New York City asks: “I just moved to NYC and need help and advice about how to make it here (in the arts). Should I try to find an internship even though I've been out of grad school for two years? Should I work at American Apparel or nothing at all? Help!”104
104"Start | Timebank by E-flux," Shows / E-flux, accessed February 26, 2011, http://www.e-flux.com/timebank/start.
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 |
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| Title | Page 60 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 54 does the Time/Bank model differ from its precedents, and what are the advantages of positioning a time bank within the framework of a social and participatory public art practice? e-flux’s Time/Bank website garners listings that read like classified ads and/or Craigslist postings. Time/Bank members are free to propose anything from conceptual art projects to practical service or advice. Among recent listings for example, the “Crowdsourcing Art Project” offers one time/bank hour in exchange for an image based on the participant’s interpretation of a “word of the day”; while the “Stars Project” offers 24 hours to participants who will display the night sky in real time, via webcam, on their computer monitors. Job related listings include such requests as: “Need a P/T Developer for GIFTFLOW.org,” and offer anywhere from six to forty hours in exchange for website coding. Other offers and requests encompass shelter, transportation, proofreading and translations. Someone in Chicago who has access to “a university library proper” for example, offers one hour of their time to scan articles and PDFs for anyone working on a research project and in need of assistance. A listing under the category “general advice” from a member located in New York City asks: “I just moved to NYC and need help and advice about how to make it here (in the arts). Should I try to find an internship even though I've been out of grad school for two years? Should I work at American Apparel or nothing at all? Help!”104 104"Start | Timebank by E-flux," Shows / E-flux, accessed February 26, 2011, http://www.e-flux.com/timebank/start. |
