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3/9/2014

The Value of Nothing

Tent, Rotterdam

Meschac Gaba, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Iratxe Jaio + Klaas van Gorkum, Priscila Fernandes, Helmut Smits, Gil & Moti, Oblique International, Kym Ward, Roel Roscam Abbing, Weronika Zielinska, Antonia Hirsch, Jonas Staal, Remco Torenbosch, Claire Fontaine, Paolo Cirio, Bill Balaskas, Jonas Lund, ZUS curated by Jesse van Oosten (TENT) and Michel van Dartel (independent curator, V2_) On Thursday 4 September, TENT opens The Value of Nothing art manifestation. In five new projects, a group exhibition, Fieldwork Residencies, and an intensive, in-depth public program, Rotterdam and international artists reflect on our current economies and value systems.

In the aftermath of the global econo mic crisis, there are a number of increasingly urgent questions: how can we come to a different interpretation of the concept of value in addition to the usual financial and economic criteria ? What are the other forms of economic exchange? The Value of Not hing presents artists who add to the current debate on value and economy. They reveal value in places the mainstream market pass es by, like Jeanne van Heeswijk ’s project in Rotterdam’ s Afrikaanderwijk district; or show how trade in a global economy also me ans a non - monetary cultur al exchange, as in Meschac Gaba ’ s artistic exchange bureau. In their installations, Remco Torenbosch and Iratxe Jaio + Klaas van Gorkum explore t he philosophical notions of distribution and (artistic) production, while Antonia Hirs ch presents these as an active, informal network.

Topics such as economic inequality and quantification of value are explored in new projects by Helmut Smits , who controversially classifies youngsters for a football game, Paolo Cirio , who has made a tax avo idance website , and Jonas Lund’ s analog ue algorithm that maps the value of the exhibition itself.

Bill Balaskas, Claire Fontaine , and Priscila Fernandes show the inevitable effects of capitalism and consumerism, and Jonas Staal reveals the relationship bet ween recessio n and construction of the world’ s largest buildings.

Gil & Moti, Roel Roscam Abbing, Kym Ward, Oblique International, and Weronika Zielinska will each temporarily join a company in Rotterdam. They will develop proposals for radically differen t ways of addressing topics such as hospitality, the notion of work or the politics behind the infrastructure of the Internet. The proposals will be presented to the companies and t he public during the exhibition’ s Fieldwork Friday event on 3 and 24 Octobe r. For the public program, curator and writer Nat Muller has organised Breaking the Bank, a two - part event in which, with academics, journalists , and other experts, she explores how art, value, and the global economy are interrelated. In a research projec t, Erasmus University College students will dis cuss and explore the exhibition’ s topics.

Image: Priscila Fernandes – For a better world - 2012

Press contact
Josephine van Kranendonk, Communication TENT, +31 (0)10 2010962 josephine@tentrotterdam.nl

Opening Thu 4 September, 17.00

TENT
Witte de Withstraat 50 3012 BR Rotterdam
opening hours
thue - sun, 11 - 18.00 hrs

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