On CDOs and Double Clubs: exhibition 5-12 March, art swap 10 March, 2009

The project was an experiment on the value of art: is art's value its price or something intrinsic? The project consisted of an open exhibition, an art swap, and the documentation. We are pleased to announce that the documentation is now available. A Pdf version may be downloaded through the link to the right. As part of the documenation, we record the chains of art works chosen by artists for themselves in the swap. In case you would like a larger and higher resolution version, just those pages may also be downloaded separately. New and more images of the exhibition and swap have been uploaded on this page, please scroll right to view, or download them, and more, through the link to the right.

All unclaimed and unswapped works have been donated to charity, as advised in April 2009. Thank you.

Press Coverage :
Article in The Independent newspaper: <please click here>
Article in The Irish World: <please click here>

DOWNLOADS:

Full documentation, as pdf:
<please click here>


Images, as jpgs in a zip file (4.55MB), courtesy
GianLeo Frisari, Stephanie O'Connor, Kevin Fellingham:
<please click here>


Swap chains, excerpted from full documentation,
as pdf pages (1.3MB):

<please click here>

ON THE PROJECT:
 

On CDOs and Double Clubs is an experiment looking at the value of art.  It seems an apt time given the global economic uncertainty, with the acquisition and prices of art falling.  Damien Hirst stirred controversy with his statement that “art is only worth what someone will pay for it”.  But to those who refute this by saying that art’s value is intrinsic, there is the question of intrinsic to whom?  Intrinsic via the institutional subscription process still leads back to the art market, even indirectly through the need for financing.  Joseph Beuys said that real capital is not money but people as the sum of creativity of all individuals.  This experiment seems one way to test that. 

The project consists of this open invitation and an exhibition of all submitted works.  It also includes an art swap, where participants may choose to swap art for art (or something else of value).  The aim is for no money to be exchanged, only value for value.  We, as curators, are questioning our subscription role by relinquishing it.  Artists are being asked directly the question of value, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in choosing to participate (or not) in the exhibition and the art swap.  Viewers, too, have their part to play.  To acquire an artwork in the swap, they need to assess value without the benefit of gallery endorsement and pricing and determine their own method of payment.  The final part of the project is the documentation of the art swap as the findings from this experiment, which will be made publicly available.

 

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:

 

Alexim, Fernando (UK) * Ali, Diana (UK ) * Ali, So-Ha (UK ) * Altomare, Filipo (UK) * Arata, Michael  (USA) * Arkell, Elaine (UK) * Arzuffi, Elena (Italy) * Assaf, Ai  (Italy ) * Atkinson, Margarete (UK ) * Atzori, Ermeneguldo (Italy) * Avanzi, Paolo  (Italy ) * Baides, Angel (Spain) * Bakker,  Claudia  (Italy) * Bana, Sabela  (Spain) * Banta, James (USA) * Baraona, Isabel (Portugal) * Barrett, Sarah  (UK) * Bartkowiak,  Stefan  (Germany) * Baumflek, David (USA) * Bawa, Arvinder (UK) * Beckman, Elizabeth  (USA ) * Begum, Farida (UK) * Bergamaschi, Gianfranco (Italy) * Bericat, Pedro (South Korea) * Blinkho, Sue  (UK) * Bolano, Lucas (Spain) * Borszcz, Sandra  (UK ) * Boschi, Anna  (Italy ) * Bracken, Amanda (UK) * Brown, Jenny  (USA) * Brucini, Alessandro (Italy) * Buchholz, Keith  A  (USA) * Bun, Jean  (UK) * Bustelo, Ana Garcia (Spain) * Butler, Tom  (UK) * Byrne, EA (UK) * Calchi, Novati Ludovico (Italy) * Calvo-Galan, Aguston  (Spain) * Canhao, Rodrigo (Portugal) * Carati, Daniela  (Italy ) * Cardenoso, Loli (UK) * Carriconde, Gisel (UK) * Caruso, Massimo Fabio  (Italy) * Casey, Sarah (UK) * Catania, Mimmo (Germany ) * Catro, Julio  (Brazil ) * Cavia, Mari Sol (UK) * Chalklem, David  (UK ) * Chavarri, Ignacio  (Spain) * Cheves, Alexander  (USA) * Chevy, Julien  (France) * Chiarantini,  Andrea (Italy) * Cho, Francesca (UK) * * Cimino, Pietro  (Italy) * CIRIACA+ERRE (Switzerland ) * Claire, Paula (UK) * Cobas, Mario Carchini  (Italy ) * Cohen, Sue  (UK) * Collins, Allan  (UK) * Combes, Sophie  (France) * Coombs, Allen  (UK) * Coppola, Elisabetha  (Italy) * Corsitto, Carmela  (Italy) * Coruzzi, Fabio  (UK) * Costa,  Rita da (Portugal) * Coyle, Emma  (UK) * Cristin, Laura  (Italy) * Crombie, Jan  (UK) * Daniele, Bruno (Italy) * Daniello, Rosy  (Italy) * Darko, Vulic  (Switzerland ) * Davalli, Daniele (Italy ) * Davino, Caterina  (Italy) * Dekeyser, Anne  (Belgique ) * De Lutz, Christian  (Germany) Demonde, Claudia  (USA) * Doornenbal, Jan-Willem (Spain) * Dorina, Monaco (Italy ) * Dost-, Nolden Dagmar  (Germany ) * Duchen, Marcelo (UK) * Ecke, Thorsten  (Germany ) * Ettore, Tomas (Netherlands) * Evrensel, Urun (Turkey) * Fanara, Stefano  (Italy) * Fanti, Roberta  (Italy) * Finetti, Anna (Italy) * Fludd, Derrick  (China ) * Foster, Victoria (UK) * Franceschi, Kiki (Italy) * Friasari, Gianleo (UK) * Gabiani, Irina (Luxemburg ) * Gama, Alex (Brazil) * Garcia, Jordi  (Spain) * Gehl,  Nina  (UK) * Giannotti, Stefano (Italy ) * Giannotti, Stefano (Italy) * Gianpaolo, Lucato (Italy) * Gorman, Kelly  (UK) * Gouveli, Maria  (UK ) * Goymil, Marcos  (Spain) * Gracia,  Silvio de   (Argentina ) * Grillo, Rosella  (Italy ) * Gross, Cheryl  (USA) * Grum, Schwensen Dorth (Denmark ) * Gruppo, Sinestetico (Italy) * Gunes, Sinasi (Turkey ) * Gustini, Igor  (Italy ) * Hannam, Beth  (Uk) * Harper,  Ed  (UK) * Heider, Cristine (UK) * Heuser, Renato  (Brazil ) * Hewwtt, Vincent  (UK) * Hidalgo, Fernando (Spain ) * Homma, Kaori  (UK) * Hrapov, Sergey (Ukraine) * Huber, Joerg  (France) * I'Ason, Rachel  (UK) * Idrees, Khaver (UK) * J&W, management consulting art label (Switzerland) * Jackson,  Bridget  (UK) * Jacovelli, Valeria  (UK) * James, Topple  (Italy) * Jerna, Ana Maria  (Italy) * Jimenez,  Miguel  (Spain ) * Johnson, Jonathan (UK) * Kimber, Berry  (USA) * Kohout, Milan  (USA) * Krarup, Steen (Denmark ) * La, Toan Vinh (Canada) * Lancuman, Elaine  (USA) * Lauridsen, Hanne  (USA) * Leber,  Wendy (UK) * Lee, Bommsoon (UK ) * lemeh42,  (Italy ) * Lentini, Alfonso  (Italy) * Lijana, Jacolevna (UK) * Linder, Anna (Sweden ) * Llinares, Tania  (France) * Lloyd, Jayne (UK) * Logothetis, Fanis  (Greece) * Lubomirov, Iavor  (UK) * Madrille, Cecilia  (USA ) * Maggi, Ruggero (Italy ) * Mahlmann, Kerstin  (Germany ) * Malik, Wittwulf Y  (Germany ) * Manes, Francesco (Italy) * Manuel, Olivares (Italy) * Marchetti, Giuseppina (Italy) * Marin, Anna  (Spain) * Martignoni, Marco + Pisani, Anna *Martin, Marina  (Spain) * Mazzarello, Grazia (Italy) * Mehta,  Sneh  (UK) * Meneti, Antonio (Italia) * Meredith, - Vula Lala (UK ) * Mesch, Maria  (Italy ) * Michelotti, Monica  (Italy ) * Molinari, Mauro  (Italy) * Monachesi, William (Brazil) * Morales, Marta  (Spain) * Murphy, Peter  (Australia) * Nabil, Al-Zein  (Italy) * Neri, Bianca Maria  (Italy) * Newman, Mike (UK) * Nikitina, Anastacia  (UK) * Niola, Laura  (Italy) * O, Connor Stephanie (UK) * Okafor, Fiona (UK) * Olins, Rob  (UK) * Oliver, Fishman Jake (UK) * Olsen, René (UK) * Omiata, Gbenca (UK) * Orjuela, Claudia  (Spain ) * Othello, Andreson & Shaffer Fern (USA) * Palumbo, Vicenzo (Italy) * Panatzopoulo, Ioanna (UK) * Paskali, Rena (Macedonia ) * Pauper, Paul  (USA) * Paz,  Levozan  Hilda  (Argentina ) * Pennacchi,  Vincenzo (Italy) * Picca, Giacomo  (UK) * Pili, Francesca (Italy) * Pirozzi, Lee  (Italy) * Prieto, Olivia  (Spain) * Pryymak, Olha  (UK) * Raducan, Flora  (Romania) * Ramstedt, Johan  (UK) * Rapio, Angela  (Italy) * Redwood, Dawn  (UK) * Rego, Silva  (Germany ) * Reiber, Bettina (UK) * Restrepo, Tulio  (Columbia) * Ribeiro, Andrea  (Brazil) * Riker, Maryann (USA) * Robinson, Amanda (UK ) * Rodriguez, Nikita  (Spain) *Roger, Agathe (France) * Romanin, Sabina  (Italy) * Rosenberg, Levo Margherita  (Italy ) * Rosenfield, Leonora  (Brazil ) * Ross, Jennifer  (UK ) * Ross, Jennifer  (UK) * Rossi, Serena  (Italy) * Rsek, Ivana  (Croatia) * Ruddlinger, Eva  (UK) * Ryding, Jeanine Coupe (USA) * Saarma, Randel  (Estonia) * Sah, Grovinda Prasad (UK) * Sai, Huakuan (UK) * Salmaso, Marina  (Denmark ) * Sassu, Antonio  (Italy) * Scala, Roberto (Italy) * Scarano, Franco (Italy) * Semeiko, Andro (UK) * Serra, Roberto (Italy) * Sferza, Silvana  (Italy) * Shrigley, Patricia (UK) * Signorile, Valter Luca (Italy ) * Sordi, Alberto  (Italy ) * Souza,  Jaqueline Machado de (The Netherlands ) * Souza, Maurilio (Brazil ) * Spelta, Celina  (Italy ) * Squardalupi, Luca  (Italy) * Styles, Billy (UK) * Sugars, Andrew Martyn  (UK) * Sulcanese, Mariantonieta (Italy) * Svozilik, Jaromir (Norway) * Tagen, Dani (UK) * Takahashi, Taryn (UK) * Tarchito,  (Italy) * Telaro, Gennaro (Belgium) * Toth, George (Uk) * Trappler, Jill  (South Africa ) * Triantis, Aristotelis (Greece) * Trissino, Dal Vello D'Oro  Elena  (Italy ) * Trosso, Michele Principato (Italy) * Turk, Catherina  (Germany ) * Turnhurst,  (UK) * Turvey, Nick  (UK) * Valle, Alex (Belgium) * Van, der Werf Hanneke (The Netehrlands) * Van, Gelder Paul (UK) * Van, Kerhoff Sonja  (Netherlands) * Verdi, Raj  (UK) * Villa, Cristina (Italy ) * Visan, Ioana Irina  (Italy) * Vitarelli, Giovanna  (Italy ) * Waldron, Stuart  (UK ) * Walker,  Donna  (UK) * Wang, Yu Chen  (UK) * Wasniewski, Casey Ann (USA) * Watson, Nicola  (Germany ) * Watts, Jemma  (UK) * Watts, Stefphen and Cristina Vitti (UK) * Westphal, Rudigo + ? (Germany ) * Whitter, Gail  (Canada) * Woll, Adriana  (Germany ) * Wood, Reid  (USA) * Yacoob, Mary  (UK) * Yeshim, Agaoglu  (Turkey) * Zanata, Roberto (Italy ) * Zguro, Fani  (Austria ) * Zocca, Daniela (Italy) * Zoltners, Mara (USA) *

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