{"id":1760,"date":"2011-10-15T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:37:24","slug":"transaccions-de-laccio-a-lobjecte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1760","title":{"rendered":"Transaccions: de l\u2019acci\u00f3 a l\u2019objecte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Horrach Moya<\/a>, Palma, Spain
\n15 SEPTEMBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2011\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A-153167 (ANIBAL LOPEZ), DAVID BROOKS, MARTIN JOHN CALLANAN, NEMANJA CVIJANOVIC, DETEXT, CALEB LARSEN, LIZ MAGIC LASER, JULIEN PREVIEUX, DANIEL SEIPLE & KUNST RE-PUBLIK, KATARINA SEVIC, SANTIAGO SIERRA, NEDKO SOLAKOV, NIKOLA UZUNOVSKI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Horrach<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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According to elementary economic theory, specialization allows for the efficient use of economic resources. As slightly more advanced theory handbooks point out however, it also increases the costs of conducting transactions. Should you decide to buy an artwork (e.g. at this exhibition), in addition to the price tag, you would have to consider the effort of finding accurate information, traveling to the gallery and negotiating with the dealer, as well as the costs of transporting, hanging and storing it. All these expenses beyond the works’ nominal value are known as transaction costs and may be important when assessing a transaction. Most economic theories, however, surprisingly consider them negligible, and in order to simplify their analyses, assume they are zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond such examples, transaction costs<\/strong> certainly play an important role in today\u2019s hyper-specialized economy. Hardly measurable\u2014in some cases, deliberately ignored or concealed\u2014they nevertheless affect the millions of economic exchanges taking place every second and can create a considerable lapse between the economists\u2019 representation of the world and our experience. Featuring works that deal with daily exchange processes or delve into the transactional dynamics of today\u2019s global economy, this exhibition examines precisely such assumptions and flawed hypotheses, as well as the inherent limitations of the capitalist economic model. But rather than simply challenging economists\u2019 fallacies, it explores the political and poetical possibilities of this gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-opting institutional structures and exploiting loopholes in regulation, the artists featured in the exhibition reveal the absurd economic logic governing everyday operations as well as the ethical and legal boundaries of today\u2019s neo-liberal model. Aware of the difficulties of escaping it, the artists presented in this exhibition adopt them as their own natural habitat and political battleground. Such is the case of Liz Magic Laser\u2019s<\/strong> Chase<\/em> and Daniel Seiple & Kunst Re-publik\u2019s<\/strong> Landreform Carousel<\/em>, who turn symbols of affluence and commerce into unlikely theaters and circus attractions, or Katarina Sevic\u2019s<\/strong> Social Motions<\/em>, which uses codified forms of social interaction to re-establish the significance of a human presence in today\u2019s dehumanized corporate structures. In what seems to edge on the grotesque, Santiago Sierra<\/strong> and Nedko Solakov<\/strong> repeatedly stage simple transactions to expose capitalism’s underside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engaging different networks of bureaucracy, artists like Martin John Callanan<\/strong> or Julien Previeux<\/strong>, use the semi-automated processes habitual in government and corporate bureaucracy to produce their works. While others, like Nemanja Cvijanovic<\/strong> or Detext<\/strong> subvert the expectations of cultural bureaucrats to reveal these systems’ shortsighted logic and to question the role of institutional structures in the production and distribution of art. The free market\u2019s alleged efficiency and uncontrollable appetite is echoed in Caleb Larsen\u2019s<\/strong> non-descript, networked black cube, a sculpture that permanently tries (and often manages) to sell itself on eBay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerned with less conventional systems of communication and transportation, Nikola Uzunovski<\/strong> pillages an archive of letters sent to Santa Claus to conduct a statistical study of the children’s wishes and map the influence of consumerism on them, while David Brooks<\/strong> and An\u00edbal L\u00f3pez (A-153167)<\/strong> follow the routes of illegal smuggling to examine the legal and ethical boundaries of global trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review by Pau Wealder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Transactions\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Horrach Moya, Palma, Spain 15 SEPTEMBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2011 A-153167 (ANIBAL LOPEZ), DAVID BROOKS, MARTIN JOHN CALLANAN, NEMANJA CVIJANOVIC, DETEXT, CALEB LARSEN, LIZ MAGIC LASER, JULIEN PREVIEUX, DANIEL SEIPLE & KUNST RE-PUBLIK, KATARINA SEVIC, SANTIAGO SIERRA, NEDKO SOLAKOV, NIKOLA UZUNOVSKI According to elementary economic theory, specialization allows for the efficient use of economic resources. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[2526,65,112,2524,2530,2531,2527,2532,2525,1402,1484,1433,2528,111,116,2529,198,108,114,113],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-output","category-letters","tag-advanced-theory","tag-callanan","tag-david-brooks","tag-economic-exchanges","tag-economic-model","tag-economic-resources","tag-economic-theories","tag-economic-theory","tag-exchange-processes","tag-featuring-works","tag-global-economy","tag-horrach-moya","tag-institutional-structures","tag-magic-laser","tag-nemanja","tag-nominal-value","tag-palma-spain","tag-santiago-sierra","tag-seiple","tag-sevic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}