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The Meanings and uses of artmoney [Recurs electrònic] / Mark Banks
Series: Working paper (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) ; 88Publication details: Milton Keynes : The Open University. Centre for Research on Sociocultural Change (CRESC), 2011Description: 17 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (262,63 Kb)Online resources: Summary: This working paper details preliminary findings from a study of the producers of ‘artmoney’ – an alternative currency based on original art. Artmoney was set up in 1997 by the Danish artist Lars Kraemmer as a means of stimulating trade amongst struggling artists and as a critique of conventional (state-issued) money and its social relationships. The working paper is principally concerned with the different motiva interviews with artmoney artists, the main findings are that: - Artmoney artists are mainly to be found in Denmark, amongst the professional and semi-professional middle class. - The main motivations for producing art money are social, ludic and aesthetic – rather than economic. - Artmoney is viewed as an exercise in enhancing communitarian sentiments and democratic sociability -rather than radical political critique. - Artmoney is used for a variety of purposes, but mainly gifting and bartering within the established artmoney community. - The paper concludes that the main success of artmoney lies in its ability to provide a shared communicative context for various kinds of social transacting between community artists – it is less successful as a publicly-recognisable ‘alternative’ currency or as a means of poverty alleviation. - As an exemple of an 'alternative' form of economising artmoney contributes to an existing and vigorous debate regarding the nature of economic possibility in contemporary capitalism. (Font: Autor)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Introduction -- Making artmoney -- The research project -- Some preliminary findings: Profile of the artists ; The attractions of artmoney ; The political potential of artmoney ; The uses of art money -- Concluding remarks -- References
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