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Over the past three years, the New York-based, itinerant art organization e-flux has been cultivating a large-scale micro-economy through a project called Time/Bank. Physical branches at museums in Den Haag and Frankfurt circulated an alternative currency whose notes, designed by the artist Lawrence Weiner, are printed in denominations of hours. During these exhibitions, anyone could spend time helping others to earn bills, which are redeemable for daily items, groceries, art books and other staples. Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, the artists who founded Time/Bank, call it “a platform that enables people to get things done without using money” — indeed, to this day the bank is still functioning, globally, with more than a thousand users who deposit time into the Time/Bank Web site and withdraw it in the form of skills performed by others.

As harvest season crests, Creative Time has commissioned e-flux to create a permutation of Time/Bank that will open on Sept. 24 at the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan: Time/Food, a temporary lunchtime restaurant serving dishes contributed by a long list of very accomplished visual artists, who also like to cook. Diners need only pledge 30 minutes of their time to sit down to a meal. Some of the recipes, like Paul Chan’s fennel and orange salad, sound like simple, healthy, potluck fare; others, like the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective’s spicy shrimp dish “Pirates of the Bay of Bengal,” will appeal to a more daring palate. Don’t miss “Martha’s Mediterranean Spinach,” from the famously methodical kitchen of Martha Rosler. On Sunday, Sept. 25, Rirkrit Tiravanija will serve as Time/Food’s first, and particularly well-seasoned, guest chef.