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

May 12, 2023

Dr. Dani Admiss responds to DPE

In this conversation, Dr. Dani Admiss responds to some questions posed by DPE toolkits editor Alessandra Saviotti. Admiss was invited to respond via a written contribution to 'From Decentralising Political Economies to Economics the Blockbuster', a text published on DPE, illustrating a series of questions the platform intends to explore over the years ahead.
Admiss focused on a specific question that emerged from the text such as: 'How would we begin to develop more pluralistic ways of seeing, using and participating in this complex (and often hidden) social economy?', and she used her recent project Sunlight Doesn't Need A Pipeline to formulate a possible answer to it.

In this conversation, Saviotti and Admiss unpacked some aspects which emerged from both texts.

Dr. Dani Admiss text is available in the library, please follow this link.

Published by Alessandra Saviotti in Library, Repurposing, Uncategorized, Undercommons, Use Value
Tags: Interview