Exchange Project
By The100Hands
Stuff, services, knowledge, entertainment, nonsense. All day long, people exchange with each other. In Western society, this exchange is increasingly taking on the character of a transaction: exchanging goods and services for money. Exchange Project explores what happens when we question or change the routines of market forces.
With Exchange Project Breda dance company The100Hands and lecturers Godelieve Spaas (Economy in Common / Economie als Gemeengoed) and Falk Hübner (Artistic Connective Practices) explore what happens when you put relationship, rather than money, at the centre of exchanging things. They do this based on the conviction that the (spring) power of a community comes from connections that are created. In doing so, exchanges become an important building block for a fair economy and society. With a lecture performance, an interactive performance and an exhibition, they question the functioning and values of exchange and, together with the audience, explore what other ways of exchange are conceivable and what they can produce.
In the physical performance, a group of dancers and musicians invite you to look at exchange when not everything is predetermined, when numbers and words fall away and exchange becomes (again) physical and personal. In an alternation of watching, doing, experiencing and reflecting, you rediscover what exchange means to you, but you also get to know other perspectives on it and we look beyond the superficial differences between people to the value of exchange in itself. Whether you prefer observing or being in the middle of the action, Exchange Project offers space to experience various points of view side by side. Be welcome and 'come as you are'!
