Please cross post!
Shelley Sacks' Exchange Values: images of invisible lives is a social
sculpture allowing Windward Island banana producers to speak to the
people who ate the fruit which they grew. Already the subject of an
article in Ecumene (2000), it now has its own web-site:
www.exchange-values.org.
This site contains photographs of, and audio files from, the sculpture;
reflections upon it and the politics and process of social sculpture;
links to organisations concerned with the international banana trade; an
updated list of venues (it's currently in Johannesburg); and an
invitation to host the sculpture in your local art gallery.
This site should be a valuable resource for those researching and
teaching about commodity fetishism, art and geography, sustainable
production/consumption, and a lot more.
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Ian Cook
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
Tel: 0121 4146262 Fax: 0121 4145528
http://www.ges.bham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cook.htm
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