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How much do I owe you?An exhibition by No Longer Empty

Artists who make work that requires viewer interaction

How much do I owe you?

Looking quite empty, not to mention busted up


Looking very empty…although cleaned up a little bit


Less than a month later… It’s a real art space!

Sal RandolfGive and Take (2012)Money, plates, people


“For me, the artwork happens inside the other person as they experience the situation—as they think about, give away or spend the money.”


How would you choose to interact with this piece of art?

Sal RandolfMoney Actions (ongoing)Money, string, people

Sal RandolfMoney Actions (ongoing)Money, string, people

Money Actions is an ongoing series in which I have been using the social dimensions of money as the basis of an interactional and interventionist art practice. I give away money in streets, stores, galleries, talks, dinners, cafés, sometimes anonymously, sometimes in groups or person to person—often to people who give it away in turn. Because money is caged in rules, simply acting outside these rules opens up new ranges of social action and interaction. The money serves as a provocation for thought, conversation, feeling. In my experience, people are more reluctant to receive than to give; it’s awkward for people to be put in that situation, and I like to linger there.

Sal Randolf

Class responses:

What issues does this artwork raise for the viewer/participant?•Greed, desire, temptation, honor

How does money usually enter your life?Receiving(from family/friend)•Sometimes awkward to receive•More likely to save rather than spend•If spent, it’s usually for something special that you normally wouldn’t be able to get.

Earning(from working)•Seems to be worth more than it actually is.•Less likely to spend•Very likely to save or “protect”•It’s “mine!”

Finding(randomly and rarely)•Exciting to find, it can change the whole ‘feel’ of a day.•Less likely to save.• Very likely to spend on immediate desires, food/drink

Artefacting WorkingGroup

Bloodbank

Answer the question:What is your Blood worth?

Leave some of your blood behind…

And you get a nice red balloon!

“Members of the community and citizens of NYC will come together with project leaders Alex White Mazzarella and Iandry Randriamondroso to Artefact what compels people to give, all the way through the donation of blood. Bloodbank is an online video registry and a storefront art incubator space where the social dynamics of blood and everyday gifting will fuse as a multimedia experience about how social capital is formed.”

So…What is your Blood worth?

What is your Blood worth?

Jennifer Dalton

Reckoning (2012)Plexiglass boxes, memo pads, buttons

Jennifer Dalton


This interactive installation invites us to consider issues of “Surplus” and “Debt” in our own lives and experiences. The pads detail many ways that each of can classify ourselves and the many areas of interaction from country to family. Consider situations where you feel you have given more than you have received back or where you have received more than you have given and fill out the appropriate sheet and place in either “Surplus” or “Debt.” In exchange for your participation you are invited to take one of the buttons located under your entry box. Multiple surveys can be filled out reflecting different aspects of one’s life.

Jennifer Dalton


Jennifer Dalton


What are some areas in your life where you receive and/or give?

1. Friendship2. Affection3. Finance4. Learning (academics)5. Energy consumption6. -7. -

Jennifer Dalton


Jennifer Dalton is an emerging Brooklyn artist who doesn't shy away from making a political statement (unlike so many of her contemporaries). Through a variety of media ranging from sculpture, installation, and drawing, to event organization, Dalton sticks her nose where mainstream discourse tells her it doesn't belong. Much of her artwork targets the imbalances of power structures, using group discussion to dissect a shared sense of struggle among people.

From artinfo.com

Jennifer Dalton


Are you in Surplus? Are you in Debt?

Theodoros Stamatogiannis

Untitled(2012)Ping pong table, net, and mats

Have you ever interacted with these objects before?


UntitledBasketball equipment

How do we usually interact with art objects in a museum or gallery? Who decides how we are supposed to interact?


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“Traditionally, architecture creates place while sculpture creates objects. My practice is a research of how architecture can create sculptural objects that arise from the geometry and the function of architectural place.”

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Pilot Branch of Operation Paydirt

A project by Mel Chin




More examples from http://www.fundred.org/




Mel Chin initiated Operation Paydirt in New Orleans in 2008 where at least 30% of the inner city childhood population was affected by lead-poisoning before Katrina.

Chin also inserts art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. He develops projects in the field of “green remediation,” using plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from soil, and improve the quality of communities.




Operation Paydirt is a multidisciplinary, artist-driven project advancing a solution to the devastating problem of lead (Pb) contaminated soil that puts thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. The goals of the project are to raise awareness of the issues of lead and to create a model for making cities lead-safe across the United States. Ultimately Operation Paydirt’s purpose is to support generational human and environmental health.




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This field near St Paul, Minnesota ranked at the top of the government issued Superfund list, indicating its incredible toxicity. At the time when Chin was considering his proposal to heal the land, it was so infected with incinerated sewage sludge that it was illegal for anyone to even step foot on it. Chin heals this polluted land by building a garden on it. He works on his project one plot at a time and fences off about a fifty-foot radius to plant the current garden. Heavy metals, which are proliferate in the soil, are fatal to most organisms when concentrated, however Chin has discovered a type of plant that cannot only tolerate such toxic elements, but leaches them out of the soil and stores it in its vascular system. These plants are called “hyperaccumulators” and are unique in the plant world because they can thrive in toxic lands

Superfund sites in NYC


Superfund sites in the USA




Is this what you’d expect “art” to be? Or is this more “community

activism?”What qualities should ‘good art’ have?1.-2.-3.-4.-5.-6.-7.-

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