White Hot Magazine, June 2011

View source… How to Time/Bank Stroom, The Hague, Holland Time/Bank For half a year, I’ve been logging into my e-flux Time/Bank account, only to poke around for a minute before closing out. Like many, I’ve managed to form a versatile network of friends from which I can find couches to surf, shrewd editors, language coaches…
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e-flux journal #27, issue on alternative economies, 9 September 2011

View source… Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Alternative Economies” Lawrence LiangIs it a Bird? A Plane? No, it’s a Magic ChairAn alternative economy would have to seek a language that does not just name a different economic process, but names different psychic energies amidst the prediction of gloom that normally accompanies the retreat
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New York Times, 23 September 2011

View source… 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,
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All the Small Things blog, November 7, 2011

View source… Stroom Den Haag and NAIM Bureau Europa, have launched a pop-up ‘time store’ called time/bank in Maastricht, Netherlands that is open now until October 2, 2011.opens the Dutch branch of the e-flux Time/Bank. This initiative by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda is a perfect match with the Stroom program ‘Upcycling’ which investigates new perspectives in
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