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Money Tag in Berlin April 25 - May 17
Money Tag will part of Manual CC a show of art games at Uqbar in Berlin, April 25 – May 17
Money Tag
Players: As many as you like.
Materials: For each player, money (a bank note), a piece of paper, and a paper clip. Pens and pencils.
Setup: Decide how long the game will last (10 minutes? 3 months?). each player writes their name on a sheet of paper and clips it to their bank note.
Play: Find someone to give the money to. Have them write their name on the paper and agree to pass it to someone else.
Winning: The player who gets the money back with the most names wins. If you don’t get the money back, you lose. Make the game harder by increasing the amounts of money and the length of the game.
(The Money Tag Game, like all the contributions to Manual CC, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 and I hereby dual license it under the CC BY-SA license as well)
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Manual CC – Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players
Presentation of the Results of the Open Call
Opening April 25, 2008, 6 p.m.
Duration April 25 – May 17, 2008
Manual CC is a set of game manual-scenarios, composed of “instructions for beginners and advanced users”, that have been submitted by artists on special cards, all of which are of the same size. During the exhibition, the cards are placed together with copies of the original instructions, which can be picked up and collected by visitors. Following the manual instructions, the visitors can, inside or outside the gallery, recreate the artists’ projects, which are single player or group games.
On April 25, from 6 p.m. on the opening at uqbar gives the opportunity of playing together with others. Extra games by Wilhelm Sasnal and Barbara Stock will be on display.
The number of participants, both artists and “users”, is constantly growing. So far, over seventy artists were involved. A selection, curated by Marianna Dobkowska, has been on show at uqbar from April 3-18, 2008. More than 35 artists took part in the open call, further contributions are possible till the closing of the exhibtion on May 17.
The Creative Commons license (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5) allows for reassembly of the works after the end of the exhibition – in any place, time or configuration and without the authors’ knowledge. The format of the project is constantly changing and it is continually drifting towards unexplored areas by utilizing various media. For example, as magazine inserts, a table with cards in the gallery hall, a set of postcards, or e-mail attachments. The exhibition is not composed of tangible artworks, rather, it is an evolving set of instructions which can be used in many different ways. The playability, as traditionally understood, of many game manuals might be questioned. They are mostly conceptual projects, focused on the mere act of initializing a game – with/against oneself, other visitors, passers-by etc., mostly with an open ending and uncertain results. The assumption is that the works can be assembled with minimal or no financial resources.
Free Money with Glowlab at Bridge NYC March 27-30
Please Take One will be in the Glowlab Booth (6B) at the Bridge Art Fair NYC March 27-30, 2008. Plus a secret agent will be arranging a few Free Money appointments at the fair itself. Come on by.
New INTHECONVERSATION
: : Art Leisure Instead of Art Work: Randall Szott of LeisureArts and Dilettante Ventures talks to intheconversation about collections, cooking, and infra-institutional activity.
: : Field Test: Hideous Beast’s investigative restaging of N55’s iconic SHOP. Exploring reenactment as a form of critical theory, Josh Ippel and Charlie Roderick’s report back from their field testing of N55’s SHOP at the Open Engagement Conference.
: : Service-Works: Josh Greene funds his own series of artist grants with nights of waiting tables. Intheconversation presents a selection of four Service-Works grant projects by Helena Keeffe, Jenny Zhang, Amanda Herman, and Stuart Keeler with stories about the nights Josh Greene spent earning the money to fund them.
INTHECONVERSATION presents texts and documents about experiential, participatory and social artworks. Your comments are welcome.
[image: collection of copies of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock found in thrift stores, by Randall Szott]
Sal at Pocket Utopia, Nov 25
“Excuse me, you have art in your teeth” Closing Salon/Sal Randolph’s Talk on Weiner and other Artists November 25th @ 4pm
Please join me at Pocket Utopia as I read from Lawrence Wiener’s statements and those of various artists including Robert Barry, Alan Kaprow, Ben Kinmont, Alison Knowles, Lee Lozano, Yoko Ono, and La Monte Young. I will open a discussion on the relationship of text statements to physical embodiment in conceptual and performative artwork, with the Pocket Utopia’s re-creation of Weiner’s (“A 36” x 36” Removal to the Lathing or Support Wall of Plaster or Wallboard From a Wall,“1968) as the star example. Refreshments served.
>>[Update] Pics on Pocket Utopia’s blog
Never Been To Tehran, Oct 19 - Nov 16
October 19 – November 16, 2007 – Various venues – see below
NEVER BEEN TO TEHRAN, organized by artist Jon Rubin and curator Andrea Grover, is a worldwide exhibition with 29 international participants who will be contributing photographs of what they imagine the city of Tehran to look like, to a universal photo-sharing website. The photographs will be streamed to each exhibition venue as a continuously evolving slideshow, with more photographs being uploaded daily throughout the exhibition. The participants will use a variety of research methods to imagine the culture, landscape, and people of Tehran, using only their primary city of residence as the location of their photographs.
Participants: Dean Baldwin, Canada; Aideen Barry, Ireland; Cedric Bomford, Canada; Otto Von Busch, Sweden and Turkey; James Charlton, New Zealand; Sara Graham, Canada; Andrea Grover, USA; Deniz Gul, Turkey; Greg Halpern and Ahndraya Parlato, USA; Levin Haegele, England; Rumana Husain, Pakistan; Jun’ichiro Ishii, France; Martin Krusche, Austria; Rosie Lynch, Germany; Francesco Nonino, Italy; Elena Perlino, Italy; Heidi Hove Pedersen, Denmark; Sal Randolph, USA; Alia Rayya, Israel/Palestinian Territories; Jon Rubin, USA; Jakob Seibel, Germany; Iyallola Tillieu, Belgium; Keiko Tsuji, Japan; Lee Walton, USA; Lindsey White, USA; Christian Sievers, Germany; Zoe Strauss, USA
Venues: Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran; Caravansarai, Istanbul, Turkey; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA; Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Center, Auckland, New Zealand; Koh-I-Noor, Copenhagen, Denmark; Mess Hall, Chicago, USA; Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Downtown Electronic Jumbotron), Pittsburgh, USA; ; Embryosalon, Berlin, Germany; and live on the web at WWW.NeverBeenToTehran.COM
Free Money at the Live Biennale Oct 18 & 19 in Vancouver
Meet with me, and I will offer you a sum of money and a choice.
Update: Sorry! All the meetings are fully booked. To sign up for the waiting list, please email me: freemoney [at] freemoneyrelease.org
As part of the ongoing Free Money project, I will be making apointments to meet people in cafés and give them money in Vancouver on October 18-19. Meetings will last approximately a half hour, and will take place between 1pm and 5pm on those days. If you’re in Vancouver and would like to participate, please email me and we’ll set up a time.
Free Money is presented at the Live Biennale as part of the Participatory Dissent program at Western Front, curated by Natalie Loveless (invited by iKatun).
Give Someone A Present September 29, Toronto
Give Someone a Present will be at the Infinite Exchange Gallery during Nuite Blanche in Toronto, Saturday September 29, 7:03pm to sunrise, located at Kensington Market.
Infinite Exchange Gallery knows the value of art and believes that everyone should have access to it in their daily lives. Located within Kensington Market, this gallery will present works and services in exchange for non-monetary trades.
At 6pm on September 14, I will give someone money
21 cities at once performed, curated by hope hilton and nat slaughter, is a a performative, global network where participants create public intersections to occur simultaneously around the world.
At 18:00 eastern standard time on September 14, multi-disciplinary participants from 21 cities around the world contributed individual public projects that comprised one connected, simultaneous event.
21 cities at once performed is part of the Conflux festival
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At 6pm on September 14, I will give someone money.
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I gave money to someone.
I gave money to a stranger.
I gave money to a stranger outside my apartment.
I stopped a stranger walking by my apartment and gave her $20.
I stopped a stranger wearing a brightly colored dress and asked if she would do me a favor and take a twenty dollar bill. She agreed. I handed it to her, my boyfriend took a picture of us and she tried to hand the money back. No, no! I said, you keep it, that’s the whole point! Oh, she said, eyes, round,”thanks.
I woke up from a nap just after 6pm and realized I had to give money to someone. I found my boyfriend gave him twenty dollars, took a few pictures of him, but it just wasn’t satisfying. I was feeling sleepy and shy. I went down to the street, boyfriend trailing after, and I put a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk. He raised the camera and said, I can hardly see it. I grew impatient with myself, why not just hand it to someone? Stop being so shy and squirrely. I looked up and saw a young woman walking toward me in a brightly colored dress. She looked friendly enough and was watching with a quizzical expression. Can you do me a quick favor, I asked, and take this? I held out the bill and she said, sure, adjusting her bags. My boyfriend took a couple of quick shots. It’s an art thing, I said. I figured, she said. Thanks, I turned to go. Here, she said, holding out the bill. Oh, no, you keep it, that’s the whole point. Suddenly she looked really surprised for the first time. Oh! Thanks! Wow. I scampered back into my building and ran up the stairs. I realized I should have told her about the twenty-one cities, but by then it was too late.
Free Money in Keep the Change this Summer
“Please Take One,” part of the Free Money series, will be on view all summer at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York, along with the work of lots of other terrific artists in a show about the social implications of money called “Keep the Change.”
Free Money, Beautiful Money: Two Shows Opening in New York
A couple of upcoming openings are coming up: one where you can spend money, one where you can take money and give it away. Both are shows I’m really excited to be part of.
Thursday, Feb 22 5pm to midnight – Beautiful Money: Parasigns with Glowlab at the fountain art fair – 660 12th ave at 49th st. : : work of mine you can actually buy : : The show runs February 22-26, 11am-7pm.
Saturday, feb 24, 6-8pm Free Money Release at You Can Have it All, Salvation Gallery – 450 w 41st st., 4th floor #406, Hunter College MFA Bldg, btw 9th and 10th aves. : : dollar bills for you to take and give away : : The show runs February 24-March 17, Thurs-Sun 12-6pm.
hope to see you at one or both!