ACTIVE ECONOMY: FLEA MARKET event a 11/17

ACTIVE ECONOMY: FLEA MARKET
Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle

In celebration of the release of Surface Tension Supplement No. 1, you are invited to join us for a Flea Market. Each of the participants has been asked to prepare a table of objects, items, and goods, to be available for visitors to acquire. The tables have been organized according to different domestic spatial motifs or structures, from 'the kitchen' or 'the bedroom' to 'around the corner' or 'under the floorboards'. The market and the acquisition of objects will be organized around a bartering or trading system: visitors can offer other objects, services, items, promises, etc., in exchange for other goods or items. In this way, it is our intention to develop the event around issues related to 'informal economies' and the notion of the circulation of private goods through recycling. The event is structured in this way to experiment with the structure and formation of an exchange.

Please bring an item or two with you to offer in exchange. Or, feel free to offer other forms of services or more intangible items, such as stories, promises, secrets, etc. The event will last roughly 2 hours, and will also include a lecture/presentation on economic structures by Haidy Geismar, an anthropologist from NYU.

Drinks will be served!

Friday, November 17, 8.00pm
16 Beaver Studio
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10004

www.16beavergroup.org
www.errantbodies.org

Surface Tension Supplements is a book series focusing on writings, projects, and documentation of site-specific and location-based practices, published by Errant Bodies Press.