Shift: Artist Collectives
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Shift: Artist Collectives

Columbia College, Chicago, 2015. For this iteration of G.E.E.E., Cream Co. transformed a gallery into a multi-purpose site for exchange and reflection. Plantlets, views of the sky, records of exchanges, and passing time became operative currencies.

The Sky-Seeing Station became a favorite spot for students to take a moment in between classes. Visitors were invited to stop and compare Cream Co. Sky Colors to their own perceptions. We noticed that memories often became a catalyst for description when people looked to the sky.

For our interactive installations, we use studio-grown seedlings, multi-purpose sculptural pieces, and handmade signs to transform spaces into functional sites for community exchange. The blank wall, papered by Cream Co. became an ongoing record of the trades and exchanges.

The signs invite the viewers to tell the tale

Within G.E.E.E. familiar forms of bartering are arrested and each participant's engagement and declarations of value are accepted. Each exquisite site evolves organically, generating an array of tangible and intangible things, revealing embedded surpluses and structures within its host community.

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