What We Want Is Free,9780791462904

What We Want Is Free

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ISBN13: 9780791462904
ISBN10: 0791462900
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-28
Publisher(s): STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Summary

Through a variety of lenses, this book examine contemporary artists' use of the "gift"--the distribution of goods and services--as a medium for artistic production. Featuring a detailed survey of over fifty artists' projects from fifteen countries, What We Want is Free explores how these artists use their projects to connect participants to tangible goods and services that they might need, enjoy, and benefit from. Samples of these various projects include the creation of free commuter bus lines and medicinal plant gardens; the distribution of such services as free housework, winter warming centers, or computer programming; and the production of community media projects such as free commuter newspapers and democratic low-wattage radio stations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Ted Purves
I Potlatches and Potlucks
THEORIES OF ART, GIFTS, AND COMMUNITIES
1 Reciprocal Generosity
3(8)
Mary Jane Jacob
2 Sure, everyone might be an artist...but only one artist gets to be the guy who says that everyone else is an artist
11(6)
Bill Arning
3 Lunch Hour: Art, Community, Administrated Space, and Unproductive Activity
17(10)
Kate Fowle and Lars Bang Larsen
4 Blows Against the Empire
27(20)
Ted Purves
II Exchange and Social Aesthetics in Praxis
5 Four Projects
47(14)
Jörgen Svensson
6 A Given
61(14)
Ben Kinmont
7 How Do You Pin a Wave Upon the Sand? An Interview with Cesare Pietroiusti
75(10)
Shane Asian Selzer
8 A Call for Sociality
85(16)
Jeanne van Heeswijk
III The Handbook for Gift and Exchange-Based Art
Introductory Remarks on the Handbook
101(6)
Ted Purves
Part One Project Histories
107(62)
edited by Jessica Ingram, Ted Purves, and Shane Asian Selzer with written contributions by Stacy Asher, Jessica Ingram, Carolyn Mackin, Francis Mcllveen, Jarrett Mitchell, Ted Purves, Shane Asian Selzer, Susan Sobeloff, and Josho Somine
Part Two Exchange-The "Other" Social Sculpture
169(14)
Francis Mcllveen
Index 183

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