Sublime

“Small Lake” represents a new type of creative release: one that not only puts work into the world and invites the public to purchase it, but also openly invites other creators to creatively and financially participate in the work, made possible by Metalabel’s innovation of earnings splits for all kinds of creative releases.

By encouraging contemporary art museums to experiment with similar value flow curation, we hope to initiate a friendly, positive-sum competition among cultural institutions to connect in deeper ways with the material conditions of art workers and audiences.

First the Bundeskunsthalle would send fees to the artist subdomain. The owner of that account would then use those funds to purchase travel, accommodation, raw materials, all that is required for the event, and send the remainder to each artist’s address. With this system, the entire value chain is transparent for everyone to audit.