Exchange 2006: A Performance of Technology-Tracked Free Trade
- Description:
- Brochure. Gift of the artist. The Exchange project used cultural resistance to unsettle questionable relationships between international politics, technological surveillance, and identity construction. Challenging the politics of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and identity construction based on collections of economic and surveillance data, the artist loaded her personal belongings onto a commercial transport truck and drove across Canada and the United States, including visits to the Goldsen Archive and Johnson Museum of Art in July, 2006. Wherever she stopped, she traded her belongings with the people she met. Each of the items was conspicuously tagged with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchip to provoke thoughtful and informed questioning of the limits and liabilities of this technology. Individuals participating in Exchange were asked to trade an item of their own and to tell a personal story relating to that item. The stories were recorded, and the RFID tags enabled people to scan items and listen to these stories.
- Attribution:
- Nisbet, Nancy
- Publication Location:
- USA
- Date:
- 2006
- Cite As:
- Nancy Nisbet, Exchange 2006: A Performance of Technology-Tracked Free Trade, brochure. USA, 2006. Gift of the artist.