Trade Show at Eastside Projects
Date uploaded: December 4, 2013
Trade Show
7th December 2013 – 22nd February 2014
Eastside Projects will be closed 22nd December – 8th January.
Preview Friday 6th December, 7–9pm
Trade Show is a group exhibition that exercises the function of art to exchange, present and enact different economic practices and cultures of trade. Over the last decades artists have claimed and reclaimed trade as a socio-cultural space by producing their own shops, swaps, stalls, deals, exchange centres and distribution systems.
The first trade of Trade Show is with the economic geographer Katherine Gibson who is writing an essay in exchange for James Langdon’s redesign of The Economy as an Iceberg, an illustration she has used in presentations around the world since 2001 to symbolise her feminist critique of political economy that focuses upon the limiting effects of representing economies as dominantly capitalist.
The exhibition presents trade as a universal activity deeply embedded in almost everything we do. Art proposes and enacts forms of trade that remind us of the possibilities and complexities of living in a society where everything must mean something, and everything must be worth something. Trade Show contributes to a strong trading culture where roles are changeable, economies are collaborative and the imperative of a not-only-for-profit ethos prevails.
A new website with more details on all contributions and tradeables, updates on events and forthcoming versions of Trade Show elsewhere will be online from 6th December. Click here to visit the Trade Show website.
