Sal Randolph | Free Money
Release #2 | cash money [2007]
This is not exactly just free money, Sal Randolph wants you
to take one and pass it on. This is
Randolph’s third Free Money Release, and in this iteration,
visitors to the gallery or the show’s website are invited
to take a dollar from the stack (or request one be sent through
the mail). In
perhaps the most straightforward commercially recognizable gesture
of giving in the exhibition, Randolph’s distribution of hard
cold cash might touch a nerve or even someone’s more greedy
tendencies. Or it might raise questions about the rule of the gallery
space as one of specificity and restraint—a controlled space
for visitors, if not for the artists.
Exhibition
Text: Shana Agid
Sal
Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects
involving gift economies and social architectures, including Free
Words, Free Manifesta, and Opsound. She has recently been developing
work in the areas of experiential and participatory art, including
intheconversation, a website for texts on experiential art, as well
as a new artists cooperative, be something. She is also a member
of the artist network Glowlab.
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