Ongoing Manifesto
An ongoing experiment that plays with the interaction of art and capitalism in an effort to expand, transform, connect and critique both. Frankenart is dedicated to the art of meaningful exchange.
Aims at site specificity to this fluid place, neighborhood, city and landscape. An inclusive meeting ground for artists, audiences and community members that blurs the boundaries between them.
It's a store - no openings, no wine, no cheese (except on the hot dogs sometimes).
A playground that earnestly celebrates creation.
Promotes transparency, revealing artistic and business practices and processes.
Interdisciplinary and collaborative - monstrous hybrids welcome.
Frankenart digests the iconography of commercialism through the personal, spiritual, and political lenses of its artists and visitors.
One big conceptual art-in-practice project in progress...
Alliances
We have diabolical plans to expand, create outposts, franchise the mart, get our hands dirty in other capitalist venues. If you'd like to have us come create art projects in your businessland or ally yourselves with our martness or open a frankenfranchise, just contact us. Or we may be contacting you right now.
Franken University
Who can afford an education anymore? We here at the mart have decided to take matters into our own hands. We are currently enrolling students into our PhD program - the Anthropology of Exchange. Reading list and writings to be posted as we snail through this puppy - years, people. Participatory, hands-on disserations welcome. They haven't caught us yet.
Economies and Cultures, Wilk
Money and the Morality of Exchange, Parry
The Gift, Mauss
Anthropology of Economy, Gudeman
The Gift, Hyde
Common as Air, Hyde
Trickster Makes this World, Hyde
The World of Goods, Douglas and Isherwood
The Social Life of Things, Appadurai
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Taussig
The Acsent of Money, Ferguson
The Value of Things, Cummings
Accursed Share, Bataille
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Perkins
Predictably Irrational, Ariely
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, Graeber
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Zizek