Sublime

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.

to sustain this solidarity economy the squad may look for ways to translate vibes into monetizable modes of public engagement

Their moves are at once personal and driven by a desire to connect; and if these artists do not expect to feel wholly at home anywhere in the world, neither do they assume America is the only, or the best, place to exercise their collaborative gifts.

Caroline Woolard and four other artists from Brooklyn recognized that sometimes a physical space is needed for people to feel comfortable to start a barter network. In January 2010 the group turned a 350-square-foot former barbershop on Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan into Trade School. The narrow space has a long chalkboard on o

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