August 17, 2023

Shelley Sacks on ‘Exchange Values on the Table

In this interview artist Shelley Sacks discusses her work Exchange Values on the Table with Owen Griffiths and Alessandra Saviotti.
The conversation was recorded as part of Griffiths and Saviotti's artwork 'Tablecloth as Toolkit - Manchester version' which was included in 'Economics the Blockbuster: It's not Business as Usual' at the Whitworth (30/06 - 22/10, 2023).

Exchange Values on the Table (1996 - ongoing) is a social sculpture developed by artist Shelley Sacks in collaboration with banana producers in the Caribbean Windward Islands. A ground-breaking work of social practice, Exchange Values on the Table is a complex lifelong project which has affected social and political relationships. Over the years, it has influenced how work, fair trade, monoculture farming, and racial capitalism are discussed and understood. In doing so, it has created public space to explore and experience how art can inspire positive social change.

You can read more about 'Exchange Values (on the table)' on exchange-values.org

More info about 'Economics the Blockbuster: It's Not Business as Usual' is available here: www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/…ckbuster/

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in 1:1 Scale, Toolkits, Use Value
Tags: Interview

June 21, 2023

From dpe to Economics the Blockbuster

In this conversation, Prof. John Byrne and PhD candidate and curator Alessandra Saviotti discuss some new content and intentions for Decentralising Political Economies at the horizon of the exhibition Economics the Blockbuster at The Whitworth in Manchester.

They refer to the text 'From Decentralising Political Economies to Economics The Blockbuster', a text that launches the next phase of the research that is going to be published on this platform.

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in 1:1 Scale, Hacking, Toolkits, Use Value

November 18, 2021

DPE: Roaming Symposium – Second Week Recap

In this video, co-editors of dpe.tools Alessandra Saviotti and John Byrne analyse some key concepts and questions that emerged after the first week of workshops and panel discussions as part of DPE: Roaming Symposium.

Even though the topic of being in the midst of a pandemic has been always in the background, it was the first time that it was discussed over both sessions. It emerged the idea of the pandemic as a portal to perhaps reconsider our won locality. It also emerged how seriously it should be taken the 'space of encounter', being either virtual or in real life as a possible way to generate new forms of collaborations or support structures.

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in Hacking, Toolkits, Undercommons

October 29, 2021

DPE: Roaming Symposium – First Week Recap

Co-editors of dpe.tools Alessandra Saviotti and John Byrne analyse some key concepts and questions that emerged after the first week of workshops and panel discussions as part of DPE: Roaming Symposium.
Words such Dreams, Post-scarcity, Immediate Intimacy, Tequio, Power of Assembly and Power of Storytelling are some of the concepts emerged as a pattern across the different sessions.

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in 1:1 Scale, Coefficient of Art, Hacking, Toolkits, Undercommons

October 11, 2021

DPE: Roaming Symposium | An introduction

In this video, co-editors of dpe.tools Alessandra Saviotti and John Byrne explain the trajectories of the roaming symposium, the first public event organised as part of the platform in October and November 2021.

Decentralising Political Economies: Roaming Symposium is a research event with art professionals (artists, curators, and directors of cultural organisations), academics, researchers, constituencies and practitioners who apply art as a tool to be used as a resource for social, economic and political change.

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in Toolkits, Undercommons, Usership