Anton Vidokle, Time/Bank,

Creative Time curator and host Nato Thompson presents another of his Forms of Life radio segments here as he speaks with artist and e-flux co-founder Anton Vidokle about alternative economies, the mutability of money and the prospects for a new artistic Internet domain.

Since 2008, Vidokle has been working on Time/Bank, an ongoing initiative that enables groups and individuals to bypass money as a measure of value and instead trade time and skills for anything, including food. Recently he and partner Julieta Aranda set up Time/Food, a temporary eatery that operated on the Time/Bank economic system, allowing visitors to pay for their lunch with time currency earned by helping others in the Time/Bank community. The restaurant offered a changing daily menu of meals prepared using recipes provided by a group of artists who like to cook.

This program is part of a regular series entitled Forms of Life, hosted by Creative Time’s Chief Curator Nato Thompson, and produced for their online magazine, Creative Time Reports, in partnership with ARTonAIR.org. Guests are culture makers whose work posits new ways of looking at political realities. By addressing a wide range of issues such as alternative economies, calcified political structures, new forms of collective living, or simply being a thorn in the side of normality, Forms of Life interviews provide an opportunity to think counterintuitively about social conditions people face around the world.

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