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Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.

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Author:   Ted Purves ,  Shane Aslan Selzer
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781438453149

ISBN 10:   1438453140
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Candies in Endless Supply: From Generosity to Critical Exchange Ted Purves No Longer Normal: The Landscape of Critical Exchange Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer I. From Markets to Lobbies: Consideration of Objects, Exchanges, and Value Sure, everyone might be an artist... but only one artist gets to be the guy who says that everyone else is an artist Bill Arning Exchange-The ""Other"" Social Sculpture Francis McIlveen Lunch Hour: Art, Community, Administrated Space and Unproductive Activity Kate Fowle and Lars Bang Larsen Blows Against the Empire Ted Purves How Do You Pin a Wave Upon the Sand?: An Interview with Cesare Pietroiusti Shane Aslan Selzer The Object of Exchange Matthew Rana How Free is Free? Property, Markets, and the Aestheics(s) of the Common(s) Ignacio Valero II. The Handbook for Critical Exchanges in Recent Art Part One: Artists' Projects Introductory Remarks Ted Purves Project Histories Edited by Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer, with Jacob Wick Part Two: Structures and Institutions Introductory Remarks Shane Aslan Selzer Overviews of Institutions and Structures Edited by Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer, with Jacob Wick Part Three: Coda, or what remains Thing-City-Story: Trajectories of Urban Ephermera Elyse Mallouk III. Actors and Audiences: Generosity and Social Aesthetics in Praxis The Arts, Generosity, and Politics Peter Coyote Four Projects Jorgen Svensson Reciprocal Generosity Mary Jane Jacob A Given Ben Kinmont A Call for Sociality Jeanne van Heeswijk Contributors Index

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Praise for the First Edition If you are an artist, read this book. No matter how you define and structure your practice, the essays within What We Want Is Free will lead you to consider important questions about how you work and what kind of life a project can lead. - Nailed Magazine

Praise for the First Edition ""If you are an artist, read this book. No matter how you define and structure your practice, the essays within What We Want Is Free will lead you to consider important questions about how you work and what kind of life a project can lead."" - Nailed Magazine

Author Information

Ted Purves is Associate Professor of Social Practice and Chair of the Graduate Program in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. Shane Aslan Selzer is an artist, writer, and producer, who teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.

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