Free Money
NEWSFLASH: Free Money with Glowlab the Bridge Art Fair, New York - March 27-30, 2008
Please Take One will be at the Glowlab booth (booth 6B) at the Bridge Art Fair. In addition, a secret agent at the fair will be setting up a very small number of free money appointments to take place at the fair over the weekend. [info!]
Free Money at the Live Biennale
As part of the Live Biennale, Vancouver - October 18-19, 2007, I met with members of the public in Vancouver cafés and offered each person 50 Canadian dollars, with a choice to keep it or give it away.
Free Money was presented as part of the Participatory Dissent program at Western Front, curated by Natalie Loveless (invited by iKatun).
>>Live Biennale blog Lori Weidenhammer
>>Live Biennale blog Margaret Dragu
Please Take One
Please take one and pass it on.
Dollar bills were given away in in gallery settings on two recent occasions, as part of the show "Keep the Change" at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York, June 23 - September 7, 2007, and as part of You Can Have it All. at the Salvation Gallery in New York, February 24 - March 17.
About Free Money
Free Money is an ongoing series of situations in which artist Sal Randolph gives away sums of money in various settings, exploring the interactions and experiences that result.
The first Free Money event was held during be something’s one2one festival of intimate performances. During that event, the artist met with eleven people tête à tête in a Wiliamsburg café.
Each participant was offered a choice between $20 to keep, and $100 to give away to someone else—a total of $1,020 was distributed over the course of the afternoon.
A second Free Money happening, Free Money Release was part of the Conflux Festival in September of 2006. During the conflux, $1000 was distributed in the public spaces of Williamsburg in shiny gold envelopes for anyone to find. Participants from the first Free Money found places for the envelopes throughout the neighborhood in cafés, supermarket shelves, subway corridors, the public library, and telephone booths.
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