Exchange Rate: 2008 is an international performance exchange organized by artist Elana Mann in response to the 2008 US presidential elections. The project is sponsored by Trade&Row (www.tradeandrow.org), with additional support from Side Street Projects, Company Wide Shut, Gyst Inc and Chesed v'Tov Foundation.

A select group of artists from Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the USA are producing, exchanging and interpreting performance directions related to the election campaign.
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In this section international participants will be posting their performance directions and interpretations as they occur.
Each artist's performance date and location will be listed on the events calendar in advance.

Danielle Adair (USA)
Karen Atkinson (USA)
Luchezar Boyadjiev (BULGARIA)
CamLab (Jemima Wyman,    AUSTRALIA, and
   Anna Mayer, USA)
Audrey Chan (USA)
Bruce Conkle (USA)
Maile Colbert and Rui Costa
   (PORTUGAL)
Dorit Cypis (USA)
Zackary Drucker (USA)
Ana Fernandez (ECUADOR)
Liz Glynn (USA)
Lora Ivanova (BULGARIA/USA)
Kevin Jamieson (UK)
Eva Jung (USA/SOUTH KOREA)
Søren Thilo Funder & Stine Marie
   Jacobsen (DENMARK)
Jason Kunke (USA)
Michael Lazar and Marc Lewis
   (ISRAEL)
Jean Pierre Lapeyre (SCOTLAND)
Julie Lequin (CANADA)
Eric Lindley (USA)
Elana Mann (USA)
Marssares (BRAZIL)
Emery Martin (USA)
Sibyl O'Malley (USA)
Adam Overton (USA)
Aiste Ptakauske (LITHUANIA)
Vincent Ramos (USA)
Pablo Rasgado (MEXICO)
   and Kelly Kleinschrodt (USA)
REP (UKRAINE)
Sara Roberts (USA)
Ernesto Salmeron (NICARAGUA)
Melissa Wyman (SOUTH KOREA)

See full Event Calendar

Saturday, Feb. 21, 8-11pm
Book launch celebration
1525 Duane St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
323-667-1552 (call if you get lost)

Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 7-10pm
An grand election night event at Remy's on Temple, 2126 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026. Featuring performances, projections, live election coverage, cash bar and catered food. Read More

Sunday, Oct. 26th, 6-8pm
Performance evening at Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042 (www.seaandspace.org), in partnership with the exhibition "The Audacity of Desperation‚" (desperationexhibition.blogspot.com)

Aug. 30th-Nov. 8th
Exchange Rate: 2008 will partner with the Unconventional gathering place (www.theunconvention.com) for arts events in Minneapolis during the election season.

Anyone can contribute to the Exchange Rate: 2008 website. (click to read more)

Questions, concerns, comments? Please contact Elana Mann at: exchangerate2008@gmail.com

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