Haiven - Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization

Art after Money, Money after Art

First published 2018 by Pluto Press

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All images in this book remain the copyright of the artist unless otherwise stated. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologizes for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book.

Michael Marcovici, Rat Traders, 2011. Promotional image

Robert Wechsler, The Caryatid, 2014. Installation view

Robert Wechsler, The Caryatid, 2014. Detail

Art Reserve Bank coin: Shadow Economics designed by Gabriel Lester

Art Reserve Bank installation view, Amsterdam

SUPERFLEX, Investment Bank Flowerpots/Deutsche Bank Cannabis Sativa, 2010

Newspaper advertisement related to the K-Foundations burning of 1,000,000, August 1994

Undated photograph of Boggs with a large edition work and cat, 2018

Femke Herregraven, Geographies of Avoidance, 2011

John Baldessari, Money (with Space Between), 1991

Blu, Untitled (El Tiburn), 2009

William Powhida, The Game, 2010

Cesare Pietroiusti. Image from an untitled 2007 performance in Brussels, in which the artist treated money with sulfuric acid

Cesare Pietroiusti, Untitled (Three thousand US dollars to take away), 2008. Detail from installation and performance

Cesare Pietroiusti and Paul Griffiths, Eating Money: An Auction, 20057. Performance at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK

Cesar Pietroiusti, Money watching, 2007. Performance and social action at a Birmingham shop-front

Mximo Gonzlez, Numismagia, 2011. Side view

Mximo Gonzlez, Numismagia, 2011. Detail

Mximo Gonzlez, Big magma CCCLXX-I, 2011. Installation view

Mximo Gonzlez, Basura sin paisaje (Landfill without landscape), 2012. Detail

Mximo Gonzlez, La basura del mundo (The worlds garbage), 2012. Detail

IAIN BAXTER&, Monopoly with Real Money (1973/2009), still of performance

Cassie Thornton, Physical Audit, 2012. Performance still

Yoan Capote, Rate (fucking money), 2015 (detail)

Hans Haacke, MOMA-Poll, 1970

Lee Lozano, Untitled (Party/Paranoia, Painting, Real Money), 1969

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium, 2004. Installation view

Blake Fall-Conroy, Minimum Wage Machine, 200810 and 2012

Constantina Zavitsanos, Sweepstakes, 2015. Installation view

Constantina Zavitsanos, 1737/1921/2010 (It was what I wanted now), 2015. Installation view

geheimagentur, Schwarzbank, 2012

Zachary Gough, Bourdieux, 2014

Nuria Gell and Levi Orta, Arte Poltico Degenerado, 2014. Stock certificate

Fran Ilich, Spacebank, 200518

A panel from Epistolier and M. Trublins 1977 comic The Yippies at the Exchange

Global Ultra Luxury Faction intervention at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 29, 2014

Mel Chin and collaborators, Fundred Project, 2006present 119

Darren Cullen, Pocket Money Loans, 2013present. Installation view at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival

SUPERFLEX, Today we do not use the word Recession, 2015

Axel Stockburger, Quantitative Easing (for the street), 2014. Vienna installation view

Paolo Cirio, Loophole For All, 2013. Installation view, House of Electronic Arts, BaselSwitzerland

Mathieu Beausjour, SURVIVAL VIRUS DU SURVIE, 19919

Valentina Karga and Pieterjan Grandry, Valentina and Pieter invest in themselves, 2013

Valentina Karga and Pieterjan Grandry, Market for Immaterial Value, 2015ongoing. Instance at Sixty Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen, 2017

Cassie Thornton, Give Me Cred!, 2013. Installation view at Southern Exposure, San Francisco

Cassie Thornton, Give Me Cred!, 2013. Alternative credit report template

Mark Curran, from THE MARKET, 2010present. Bethlehem, Trader (negotiation 1.5 years), Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, September 2012

Image of Le Freeport Singapores website, May 15, 2018

Micah Lexier, A Coin in the Corner, 2012. Installation view at Mass MoCA

Michael Marcovici, How I Used Your Credit Card to Pay for This Book Online, 2009

Karen Ay, Exchange, 2009

Wilfredo Prieto, One Million Dollars, 2002

Melanie Gilligan, Popular Unrest, 2010. Film still

Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, Ten Thousand Cents, 2008

Ahmet gt, Anti-Debt Monolith, 2014

Thomas Gokey, $49,983: Total Amount of Money Rendered in Exchange for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pulped into Four Sheets of Paper, 2011

Occupy Museums, Debtfair, 2017. Installation view

Occupy Museums, Debtfair, 2017. Installation view at the Whitney Biennial

Austin Houldsworth, Wealth Beyond Big Brother, 2014

Austin Houldsworth, Walden Note Money, 2014 211

C.K. Wilde, Saturn Eating His Children, 2006

Caroline Woolard, Exchange Cafe, 2013. Installation view at the Musuem of Modern Art (MoMA)

This book is dedicated to the memory of Randy Martin, who danced with the derivative with militant optimism, and to my friends and former students and colleagues at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

This book had its origins in the challenges I met striving to teach critical theory and political economy at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, beginning in 2011, which led me to seek out the work of contemporary artists working with money as a medium of critical and creative expression. Along the way, it racked up many debts indeed.

Thanks to various people who read and offered feedback on various parts of this book, or with whom I conversed about its themes, though they may not have known they were doing so at the time. They include Franco Berardi, Jody Berland, Stephanie Boluk, Enda Brophy, George Caffentzis, Carole Cond and Karl Beveridge, Jim Costanzo, Mark Curran, Greg Elmer, Teraneh Fazeli, Silvia Federici, Zach Gough, Stefano Harney, Brian Holmes, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Leigh Claire La Berge, Noah Fischer, Baruch Gottlieb, Dmytri Kleiner, Marc James Lger, Suhail Malik, Miguel Marques, Randy Martin, Evan Mauro, Christian Nagler, Ahmet gt, Rachel ODwyer, Martha Rans, Rene Ridgway, Emily Rosamond, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Danny Spitzberg, Brett Scott, Imre Szeman, A.K. Thompson, Tobias C. VanVeen and Krystian Woznicki. This book would not have been possible without a long series of engagements with activists, artists and scholars made possible by the hospitality of many comrades and colleagues, who invited me to their communities or published work related to this project. These include Krystian Woznicki and Magdelena Taube of the Berliner Gazette, Geert Lovink, Patricia De Vries, Inte Gloerich and everyone at the Institute for Network Cultures and others associated with their Moneylab conference series, George Vassilacopoulos and Toula Nicolacopoulos at La Trobe , Rui Matoso, Sara Moreira, Paul Wittenbraker, Flo6x8, Johnna Montogmerie and Clea Bourne at the Political Economic Research Centre at Goldsmiths, Alice Meyer, Claire Wilkinson and Steven Connor at Cambridge, Helmut Draxler, Nora N Mhurch, Ned Rossiter, Lana Swartz and Michael Palm, Jrg Metelmann, Daniel Cuonz and Scott Loren at St. Gallen, Angus Cameron, Detlev Zwick, Stephanie Rothenburg, Christpher Lee and Jordan Geiger at Buffalo, Taylor Nelms and Bill Maurer at Irvine, Stevphen Shukaitis, Daphne Dragona and Kristoffer Gansing at Transmediale, and the staff at the Halifax Public Library, where I taught a class on Art and Money in 2015. And no book, but especially this one, would be possible without the support of friends, including Phanuel Antwi, Ezra Winton, Svetla Turnin, Ardath Whynacht, Alex Khasnabish, Candida Hadley, Judy, Larry and Omri Haiven.