Above are pictures of stalls
being build yesterday for the TransActions: the Market of Values, which I’ll be
taking part of on Saturday at Chelsea College. It was a glorious sunny day,
perfect from helping out the Critical Practice team and Public Works making
from recycled wood from the degree shows at the college earlier in June.
My plan at the event with The
Weave Exchange is to display a selection of
objects made by Oya during the Land of Plenty project. I’ll invite people to
exchange these for something else. This might be a new object, or a pattern, a
set of instructions, an idea for an improved version of these, or even a story
that related to them in some way…
The People’s Bureau, who invited
me to be part of TransActions, will be given the role of assessing whether the exchanges
are equitable. Without their endorsement no trading can happen. I’m interested in
finding out what criteria are used when debating these exchanges and with this,
how the value of work, making and objects is put into question. I’ll keep you
informed on the outcome of all of this in my next post.
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| Works produced by Oya, Land of Plenty project |
