Unlikely Savages presents works that question the continuity of the savage paradigm in Latin America along with the ideologies of dominion and violence that support it….
The group show “See You on the Flip Side!” explores the tenuous border crossings through which we define ourselves by questioning the frontiers of cultural,…
“Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful.” This expression is based on one of the values in Japanese aesthetics: impermanence. The fragile and transitory qualities of…
A sense of “place” is central in Harm van den Berg’s work. Using different media (painting, sculpture, sound, video) and crossing boundaries between them, Van…
Derek Curry’s work aims to make people aware of their actions as performing a function within a social system. He intends to make visible the…
Over the past six years, Jennifer Gradecki’s work has pulled from the histories, methodologies and values of both social science and art, often mining the…
It is absolutely amazing that a system of global exchange can be based on a desire for a bright, yellowish, glittering metal. Gold is valuable,…
Structure explores the links between exchange and value. It is a participatory installation that continues to be created and grow as the audience interacts with…
Taking the form of a traditional “bake sale,” this project presents a group of anonymous problems that are baked into cookies and available for exchange…
How do we define what an artwork is? The answer to this question can be traced via the system of artwork valorization, which defines, values…
The New York Trash Exchange (NYTE) is a cross between a cultural laboratory experiment, environmental activism, and a model of economic change. Like all of…
Just when does an art gallery give away artworks? In a world of climate change and water shortages does free, clean water mean anything to…
The Department of Micro-Poetics will be in long-distance residence at AC Institute as part of the Exchange Value exhibition. Coordinated from London by VerySmallKitchen, the Department…
Owen Mundy’s artwork considers places where money and culture collide. Often involving collaboration, software and interventions, it manifests in both private and public spaces, initiating…
Virulava is the second joint project by The Kit Collaboration + Robert Saucier. Their first project, Infrasense, was a large-scale sound installation that toured 11 galleries…
In honor of Hal Davis’ 1985 court case, Hannah Ross has taken famous contemporary works and copied them. Without altering the images in any manner,…
For Get Free, Jennifer Wroblewski frames “the real” as the perceived limitations inherent to life in the material world. The temporary installation investigates the possibilities of…
Loading… on the standard blue screen background … Loading… the screen displays a promise to play a DVD, shortly. Loading… the infinite loop of never-ending loading processes in the video Please…
Selin Kocagöncü composes game-like structures which are at times socially-engaged and at other times particularly personal. Teacher’s Dilemma is a cathartic drinking game dealing primarily with failure…
Early Picture is Roma Pas’ semi-spatial remake of an early picture by Auguste Rosalie Bisson depicting a snow expedition on the Mont-Blanc (1861). The first steps…