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Object Ethnography Project

August 7, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Object Ethnography Project, 2011-present Online exchange platform Access and participate in the Object Ethnography Project here. Rule of exchange: You can take anything if you pay with a story about it. Each of the objects in the Object Ethnography Project has been donated by an ordinary person. Each object has a story. All these objects are available for exchange. You, or anyone else, can trade for any object by offering a new story about it. What attracts you to the […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economy, anonymous trading, ethnography, material culture, narrative economy, object ethnography, praxis, story exchange, trade

Founder/Worker

August 6, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Founder/Worker, 2011 Trash, mixed media Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY, USA Rule of interaction: When you build something for the city, you can either have your name recorded as a founder of the city, or you can be paid $5 as an anonymous worker. In Founder/Worker, visitors are invited to build part of a miniature New York City out of trash. Participants can them make a choice about what kind of credit they’d like for their […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economy, community art, cultural capital, New York City, participatory art, participatory installation, trash art, volunteer art

The Dawson City Trash Project

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

The Dawson City Trash Project, 2008 Mixed media, trash ODD Gallery, KIAC, Dawson City, YK The Dawson City Trash Project is a miniature diorama of the current and historical garbage sites in Dawson City, Yukon. All of the raw materials used to create the miniatures are scavenged from these dump sites, and because visitors to the gallery had technically provided the materials for the exhibit, every piece of the installation was free to take away. The project enacts a landfill […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economies, alternative economy, economic art, installation, participatory economy, participatory installation, particopatory art, praxis, trash art