qu'est-ce shopshop // wat is shopshop
IN BRIEF // EN BREF // BONDIG :
SHOPSHOP
- is an experiment which transplants the behavior of a ‘real’ shop into an artistic body of research
- deals with ‘real’ products and ‘real’ money and combines production and selling
- redefines words like ‘value’, ‘profit’, ‘risk’, ‘consumption’, ‘competition’, ‘cooperation’,...
- decides every phase of opening and running a shop with all the participants: investing, finding and installing its physical location, deciding what to sell and when, connecting to the existing local economy, producing the articles, defining the value and the price of these products, selling and making money, ...
- circulates capital flows according to ethical principals that we search for together and in negotiation with the costumers, other players in the neighborhood and the larger context we find ourselves in
- produces dependencies between people, rather than autonomy of professions