Toronto Free Trade

Nancy Nisbet :: The Exchange Project:: Innis Town Hall - University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto. On Sunday June 4th at 4:30PM, artist Nancy Nisbet’s truck will pull up in front of Innis Townhall in Toronto where The Subtle Technologies Festival will host an Exchange event. Please bring items to trade!

Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Nisbet explores the boundaries of free trade, surveillance, and the politics of exchange from the back of a semi-transport truck. Over the next 6 months artist and professor Nancy Nisbet will drive a transport truck in excess of 30,000 km across Canada, the United States and Mexico as part of her Exchange project. The items available for trade will include all her worldly possessions, which have been catalogued and tagged with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology – a widely used, but invasive form of consumer tracking. Along the way she will stop in major cities and engage in “free trades” with people she encounters – exchanging a variety of goods based on the value and richness of their stories, rather than any sort of material currency.