ABOUT A NEW CURRENCY
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A NEW CURRENCY is an exhibition of thirty-one artists, which developed
out of discussions within the MFA seminar class taught at School of
Visual Arts by curator Dan Cameron (Prospect New Orleans). It will
take place in three stages: local, virtual, and global. It has
evolved as an artistic response to the changing economic circumstances
facing the contemporary art community. The participants hope for the
exhibition to serve as a model for applying art’s experimental methods
to a fundamentally entrepreneurial task: rethinking art’s relationship
to systems of exchange.

The first part of the project will take place at 55 Delancey Street,
New York, NY 10002, in the form of a group exhibition organized by the
artists themselves around the theme A NEW CURRENCY, around which most
have created new pieces. The exhibition will open May 29, 2009, and
will run for four weeks.

The second part of the project is a website developed by Gregg Louis,
www.anewcurrency.com, on which a number of approaches to A NEW
CURRENCY are pursued. The website and blog will serve as the
clearing-house for information on the exhibition, and its offshoots in
multiple locations, both within the U.S. and internationally.

The third stage of A NEW CURRENCY is its interpolation in multiple
sites. Participating artists will contact their friends and colleagues
in other cities, encouraging them to develop their own exhibition,
using the same title. The results from this stage will be exhibited at
SVA Gallery in July and August, along with works from the first stage
of the exhibition. Locations, both national and international, will be
announced on our website as they are confirmed.

PART 1 - May 29 to June 28, 2009
OPENING: Friday May 29 from 6-9 pm

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WHEN & WHERE
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New York

31 artists in cooperation with curator Dan Cameron will be hosting an exhibition in a vacant store front in the Lower East Side of New York City.

55 Delancey Street, New York, NY, 10002

Open:
Friday May 29 to Sunday June 28 2009

Reception:
Friday May 29 6-9pm

Events:
Wednesday June 10 at 6pm - "How does one my space for oneself? What does route does one take in order to open a dialogue directly with a community?" Panelists Dan Cameron, Kate Gilmore, Lorraine O'Grady and Amy Smith-Stewart.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles based artist, Ben Shaffer, will be having an ongoing discussion about A NEW CURRENCY at various locations in LA. He will be recording the conversations and then sending videos, writings and audio to the Visual Arts Gallery in New York for the Third Part of the ANC project in June.

You can contact him at ben.shaffer@gmail.com for details pertaining to the dates and times of each given conversation.

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Washingtom

Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC will hold programming
throughout July and August on the topic "A New Currency." As we move
through the age of consumerism to one of deeper assets and cognitive
understanding, contemporary art becomes a forum and a catalyst for
reassigning value. Are we moving toward a bartering of resources both
tangible and intellectual? Have we reached a limit to the magic and
lure of paper currency?" For more information, please check
www.civilianartprojects.com.

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Seoul, Taipei, and more...

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THE WHO
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Artists

Samuel T. Adams, Vanessa C. Black, Amber Boardman, J.K. Bom,
Jennifer Brantley, Zoe Chan, Tre' Chandler, Noa Charuvi, Brandon Davey, Aslaug Iris Katrin Fridjonsdottir, Rebecca Goyette, Alejandro Guzman,
Yuhi Hasegawa, Hai-Hsin Huang, Malaundo Jones, Kahori Kamiya,
Egill Kalevi Karlsson, Hye Ryung Lee, Paul Limperopulos, Gregg Louis, Kathleen Mallaney, Cameron McPherson, Habby Osk, Jabari Owens-Bailey,
Min Pang, Stacy A. Scibelli, Christina Sucgang, Trish Tillman, Curver, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Shai Zurim

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Panelists

Dan Cameron (Curator), Amy Smith-Stewart (Smith-Stewart Gallery, LES), Lorraine O'Grady (Artist), Kate Gilmore (Artist), and Ben Grasso (Artist)

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Curator

Dan Cameron is Founding Director and Chief Curator of Prospect
New Orleans, a new international biennial whose first edition opened
in November 2008 at multiple sites around the city, and closed January
18 of this year. He also serves as Director of Visual Arts for the
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Cameron was Senior Curator at
the New Museum from 1995 to 2006, where his exhibitions included
survey or new-work exhibitions by, among others, Eugenio Dittborn,
Carroll Dunham, Teresita Fernandez, William Kentridge, Los
Carpinteros, Nalini Malani, Paul McCarthy, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba,
Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Faith Ringgold, Doris Salcedo,
Carolee Schneemann, Francesco Vezzoli, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong,
and Xu Bing. In 2003 Cameron was Artistic Director for the 8th
Istanbul Biennial, and in 2006 he co-organized the 10th Taipei
Biennial. In 2006 he was the curator of ‘New York, Interrupted,’ the
inaugural exhibition for pkm Gallery Beijing. In 2008, as guest
curator for the Orange County Museum of Art, he organized a
retrospective of the American painter Peter Saul. Cameron currently
serves as Senior Curator for Next Wave Visual Art at Brooklyn Academy
of Music (BAM) and is a member of the graduate faculty of School of
Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

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The New Currency Library
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The New Currency Library was created to allow you access to unique pieces of art work oftencreated specifically for this site by several internationally exhibiting artists. These artists use this virtual space to present either video or print works straight to you in the comfort of your own home. Each week an additional work will be added to the Library's Collection. Most of the participating artists can be contacted directly through their websites which are accessible through the LINKS button on the Main Page of this website.

> Edition 2: Amber Boardman, I Wish I Could See You

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Archive

> Edition 1: Hai-Hsin Huang, Untitled Woman (2009)

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