MoneyBags

MoneyBags at Mad Art

2010-11-30T16:22:00.004-06:00

Lisa See Kim & Stan Chisholm

MoneyBags at Mad Art Gallery

Opening Reception Friday, December 3, 2010

7:00 p.m to 11:00 p.m.

Featuring:

Interactive Art Installations

Free Takeaways

MoneyBags game show

ARTIST CELLOUTS:

Danielle Spradley

Peter Pranschke

Danielle Fuhrman of Drew Henry Salon & Gallery

Benjamin Bergevin-Smith

Los Caminos Gallery

Declare It Art

STL Improv Anywhere

Mark Hunter Brown

Shawn "Dolor" Webb

Crystal Kamoroff

Thomas Linder

Ryan Powell

Live Music from 18andCounting & DJ Luxxter

Free or $5 raffle ticket for a chance to enter the live MoneyBags Game Show.

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Working with a motif usually seen only in cartoons, MoneyBags is a public art

project that transfers the recognizable image of the moneybag from the comic to the

real and playfully challenges society’s values, the role of currency, the idea of ownership,

and human impulses towards greed and generosity. Moneybags has multiple iterations,

and is not bounded by any single project. An ongoing collaborative network is

established and continually expanded on that continues beyond the life of any one

particular project. Over the past year, we have been dropping handmade moneybags,

filled with various handmade items and messages, in unexpected public locations

throughout Chicago, St. Louis, New York City, Tokyo and other cities. Our largest iteration of Moneybags took place during Art on Track, where we filled a

Chicago CTA train car brim to brim with bags made by the public.

Our mission is to encourage our audience to question the status of a given

currency. We seek to empower participants with the skills and opportunity to partake

in a collaborative art project that communicates their personal perspectives within a

context of mutual exchange and interaction.

MoneyBags at Mad Art gallery will include a culmination of past interactive installations as well as newly structured projects specific to this very event and space. The MoneyBags Game Show will be a performance where gallery attendees buy inexpensive raffle tickets for the chance to win various grand artworks in an exchange that is normally foreign to the gallery circuit. The Cellout Artists will be a collection of artists chosen by Kim & Chisholm to exhibit in Mad Art's notorious jail cells and about the gallery. The night will also include musical from DJ Luxxter & 18andCounting, free art and plenty of chances to expand upon the young & fresh public project that is MoneyBags. Exhibition open through Dec 30

A Very MoneyBags Weekend Sept 24,25,26

2010-09-17T23:30:00.009-05:00

September is chalk full of St. Louis happenings for MoneyBags

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Sept 24th- Financial Aid: We will be apart of the Money/College Multi genre Art and Music show at 2720 Cherokee, St. Louis MO. Be prepared for an interactive installation and a very special MoneyBags DJ set by yours truly, 18andCounting.

We aim to mix up the different cliques and bring a higher quality of attention, cause and detail into the DIY/Independent nightlife. We do so by involving the following Artist's and Musicians...

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MUSIC

Matt Leach

Dolor (Chicago, Wednesday Sounds)

18andCounting

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ART

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2720 Cherokee

Friday 9/24/10

8p-1a

$5 Suggested Donation

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Sept 25th & 26th -MoneyBags Workshop: Day 1: In conjunction with my solo exhibits NewPop I & NewPop II Lisa See Kim & Stan Chisholm will foster a MoneyBags workshop. Together we will construct bags and currency to be dropped about the City of St. Louis. Expect Screen printing lessons, Sewing constructions and impromptu projects.

DAY 1: St. Louis Artist Guild 10am-4pm

DAY 2: Hoffman LaChance Contemporary 6pm-9pm (Potluck and Closing Reception)

FromKC-ForKC

2010-05-25T16:57:00.010-05:00

MoneyBags took part in it's first gallery show (A Sense Of Place) a lil bit ago, where we allowed the people of Kansas City to embark upon the MoneyBags Mission. We attended the opening with great hospitality then returned to the City of Fountains at the end of the exhibition to drop the creations made during the show.

Enjoy

-18aC-

down under up here.

2010-05-24T21:00:00.005-05:00

MONEYBAGS HAS DROPPED IN AUSTRALIA... sort of. i recently dropped a few random moneybags in the down-under-belly-of-chicago. please enjoy and look out...your neighborhood could be next....

Strapped

2010-03-23T13:54:00.004-05:00

This week in Chicago, if you know what's good for you, you'll get to experience a solid performance collective and venue known as The Inconvinece. This week they launch The Strapped Festival, several days of art and theater performance plays that will "examine the current economic recession-some plays are funny, others freakish; some quick witted and some musical"

It's a fun place to be, for real. Plus my buddy Meredith Kachel is pulling in the arts, she's quite rowdy, so it's gonna be good.

Put your arrow here and click the button to learn more about The Inconvinece and the Strapped Festival.

And oh yea you can expect to see a few MoneyBags laying around the place. PickEmUp, PickEmUp, PickEmUp!

A Sense of Place

2010-03-22T15:57:00.004-05:00

MoneyBags in the Gallery? Fo Show!

A Sense of Place opening reception on

April 23rd

6-9pm

The Monarch Gallery located 3829 Main Street

Kansas City, Mo 64111

CURATED BY KATHERINE O’HARA AND RYAN TIMOTHY LAFERNEY

A Sense of Place wishes to further establish a dialogue within the arts regarding the subjects of functionality, viewer interaction, and the art of generosity, and how these elements can work together to create a holistic community.

A Sense of Place will feature the work of: Justin Rulo Sabe, Judah Wenger, Lora Campbell, Andrew Lyles, Elysia Contreras, Christopher John Schrat, Christina Lenert, Wen-Dan Lin, Leila Hybl, Kristen Montgomery, Lea Griggs, Tess Stilwell, Jaclyn Senne, Christina Dostaler, Stephen Proski & Sean Starowitz, Sarah Skidmore, Ryan Fletcher, Matthew Jorgensen, Charlie Mylie & Abbe Finley, Ramzy Masri & collaborator, MoneyBags (Stan Chisholm & Lisa See Kim), Eric Thomas Wolever, John Hilger, Sara Cramer, & Amanda James.

New Art In The Neighborhood

2010-03-22T15:41:00.005-05:00

Lisa and I got the chance to make MoneyBags with a 5 star group of High School students who are apart of the New Art In The Neighborhood program at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. This was a rare chance for us to sit and present the project, plan, create the bags and currency, AND make the drop in a matter of a few hours. EXHILARATING.

Here are a few of the drops we made.

elementary, my dear.

2010-01-27T17:41:00.005-06:00

I was fortunate enough to tag along with Sabrina Severns, educator, artist, and baker extraordinaire to pump out another $bags workshop at Marvin Garvey elementary in Chicago. And that Miss Severns, boy is she crafty; slinking around a slim time constraint and even slimmer budget, she concocted a new way to make kid friendly moneybag printing screens: using a hybrid cheese cloth/mesh fabric (porous, but sturdy) and embroidery hoops, we were able to make reusable, easy clean up screens (I would say no mess, but them kids can get down!). The results were, I think, were an all around success. Lessons learned: 5th graders freak out at the idea of a "guest artist", a little cardboard and duct tape go a long way as a squeegee, and elementary school toilets are much shorter than I remembered.

Words For Ekklesia-"Created to Create"

2010-01-13T00:29:00.004-06:00

Words For Ekklesia has started the beginning stages of their MoneyBags Movement. The small ministry of Christian creatives has 7 U.S. cities plus the country of Panama planed in their upcoming tour. But while they're still at home in SouthWestern Missouri, I'm told, that the coffee shop, "CoffeeBuzz," has re-opened their doors just for WFE to meet weekly for MoneyBaging up until their departure. Below is a video of their progress thus far. We'll be sure to keep up with these guys and share their efforts with you.

Art On Track-MassiveMoneyBagDrop

2009-10-15T01:36:00.019-05:00

Here it is! The first of many big drops. People continued to make bags, there were trades and all sorts of new rules being tossed into the mix, that's how we like it. Filled the train, kept it stocked and we still have more bags. if you're looking to get your hands on one or wanna help out, give me the word and I'll mail it to you. Don't be one of them cool kids who waits for it to blow up before you give it your time.

The show lasted from 11am-8pm circling above the downtown streets of Chicago. The looks on people's faces were pricesless upon discovering that they could not only look through the bags, but keep them if they chose. And seeing a platform full of running bodies dragging moneybags doesn't happen unless we make it happen.

Keep your ears open for the next. and Keep contributing. ThisAintOver

-AteTeenA/C

------------photos by Joan (MojoMom)------

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*Bags, Printed Images, Labor, Motivation, Sanity, Assistance, Inserted Bag Item aka Currency were provided by the people of the world. Special Shout outs to Jay Kurtz & Ashley Daley, Randi, Daryl, Jeremiah Catalano-Reilly, Emily Heymeyer, Keith A. Bucholz, Courtney Trapp & her Mom, The Campers of SCOSAG, Ron, Ben Bergevin-Smith, Lindsay Brenner, Courtney WIlliams, The DePaul University Crew and anyone who called us crazy

Currency Pt1.

2009-10-14T22:45:00.030-05:00

here is just a sample of the thing made, donated and found to be included in MoneyBags. Some are grand, some lame, one of a kinds, multiples etc. NOT everything is documented, so dont go thinking this is the end all and be all of what's in the bags...you couldn't be more wrong if you do. There is no telling what you could end up with if you come across one of these...all that matters is that it's valuable...and you may be greedy...or lucky... ... ...

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Kieth A. Buchholz & Fluxus Gave up 50 of these MoneyBags. Each one containing a "Fluxus Buck" asking for a collaborative mail in piece of art. We'll be hooked up with 50 numbered and stamped Fluxus MoneyBags every time we suit up for a MassiveMoneyBagsDrop!

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Jeremiah takes the crown for hooking us up the most BIGup to him for that!!!

*My Favorite Piece of "Currency" Imaginary/flawed/ruined Polaroid moments from Michelle

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Beth Hetland mailed in 124 of these jems with circle cut, "arrange it how you wanna" comic panels. we knew these were coming and waiting for them was like christmas. minus seeing the gifts and getting to shake them before the big day....because we had to wait for them in the mail. Anyway. Beth had the most snagged bags on the train, it's hard to turn em down.

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MyKindOfAlbum

2009-10-07T13:09:00.004-05:00

Just found out about DeeLay CeeLay. I'll be showing art at their HUGE Flux show in Portland in November.

Peeped their site and found that their latest album is up for trade. They give you music, and you hook them up with a photo, art work, love letter etc. (that open ended-ness is the MoneyBags way! )

Show them some love

ClickHereToDownloadThe THANK YOU Album

I can't believe it's like butter

2009-10-03T16:51:00.004-05:00

I understand that there's a lot of social weight, economical, and commentary on cartoon history tied into what we're doing with MoneyBags...but I can't front like hip-hop's gloating ways hasn't rubbed off on me... especially when ish like this stems from it...

Designer Dollars #2

2009-10-02T02:04:00.021-05:00

Here's a few more images you may find in or on your bags. These images were collected at our workshops, on trains, busses, parties, grocery stores, sidewalks, dumpsters, and Lamaze classes. How come we don't have one from you...?

Kevin Cochran

Lisa See Kim

18andCounting

Suzie Cochran

Lisa See Kim

Unknown

Sparkle Toast

*Read the Signature

Ten Large

Unknown

Olivia Kay

Matt Pietrus

Ron???

18andCounting

BluePrint MGMT

Mux Mool

Unknown

MakeMoneyTakeMoney

2009-10-02T01:33:00.005-05:00

As you could imagine we've been quite busy the past few weeks. Workshops went well, ideas flourishing, and we're "peeling money rolls till our thumbs get the paper cuts". But it aint over yet. Our first MassiveMoneyBagsDrop is Saturday October 10th, Chicago, Art on Track 11a-8p (look for the train blazing the loop full of MoneyBags)

In these final days we could use your help. Our biggest push is finding things to fill the bags. If you have prints, publications, food, elephants, gold bars, paper, ANYTHING...surprise us. The project isn't the same with out your input. Stan will be leaving St.Louis for Chicago this saturday afternoon if you need to catch me.

If you have images, items, or anything else to donate email myself or lisa, Stan@18andCounting.com or LisaSeeKim@gmail. and do it quick!

Send snail mail to

MoneyBags
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave 
Chicago, IL 60615

Incase you don't make it in time, don't worry. MoneyBags is forever, you can never be late.

Designer Dollars #1

2009-09-07T03:12:00.009-05:00

During the first public MoneyBags workshop at Believe Inn I was generously hooked up with some hand drawn Dollar Signs. These designs will be some of the signs to be printed on the MoneyBags. You should send some too! Stan@18andCounting.com. Hollar at me!

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Ms. Squirrely Gee

Brooks Blair Golden

Sabrina Severns & Anthony

18aC

Ephameron

An Early Christmas Gift???

2009-09-07T02:53:00.002-05:00

Somebody has to hook these up for me! If I get them my self it's just greedy...but I'm just sayin, COME ON!

They are customizable to the T!

Click Here to Flip Out

Speaking of inexpensive art

2009-08-31T01:28:00.002-05:00

Last time this happened in Chicago i walked out with 3 BANGING pieces for about 60 bucks. Come on now... Don't sleep!

Gimme Baby Robots

2009- Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle.

GIMME BABY ROBOTS, a one-night event featuring an affordable silent auction of small works (10x10) by tons of artists nationwide, is coming to the Empty Bottle. One stop of many including LA, Seattle, and Portland.

Works start at prices as low as one dollar! A great opportunity to purchase an amazing piece of artwork from great artists for a low price. Not to mention it is a nice place to have fun, hear great bands, drink beer on the cheap, and meet awesome people.
Monday, August 31st, from 8-10pm.

No Cover and Bands include:

Cougars
Silver

1035 N. Westen Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
(773) 276-3600

Bidding starts @ 8:00 pm and concludes before 10:30pm, and if all goes well you will be leaving with your very own baby robot...
See you there.

http://gbr.siamesebirds.com/

If you Believe Inn $!

2009-08-26T15:51:00.004-05:00

Belgium's own Ephameron has invited her favorite world bank (us!) to make money during her solo exhibition, "Letting Go" at Believe Inn, THIS SATURDAY-August 29th 6-10pm.

Ephameron has been bouncing around the states all summer with her next stop in Chicago to create a site specific mural installation paired with various pieces shipped over for the exhibition.

Come get bags to take and return, bring bag fillers, decorate a bag on site, rob us, however you want to take part. We'll be sewing/drawing onsite and spreading the MoneyBags gospel.

Believe Inn

2043 N. Winchester

Chicago, IL 60614

MoneyBags In NYC

2009-08-22T16:43:00.000-05:00

Free Music

2009-08-22T15:50:00.004-05:00

THE GREAT MUNDANE

The Wires (TGM Remix)

Download

DOLOR

Mr.Slow Flow [Dolor Remix]

Download

LORN

Wake Up Fucked Up

Download

Spore Projects: Taking MoneyBags for a ride!

2009-08-22T13:39:00.006-05:00

S.P.O.R.E MOBILE GALLERY
Spontaneous Projects Orchestrating Relevant Exchange

SPORE Mobile Gallery is an aging 1998 Ford Windstar minivan converted into a mobile exhibition space with an interior installation gallery and performance/exhibition tent pioneered by Emily Hemeyer.

Starting in late August-September, SPORE is traveling throughout the West Coast visiting a slew of public spaces, backyards, small venues, galleries and institutions. As part of the Cultural Ambassadry Interchange we'll be collecting photographs, stories and art from anyone and everyone who is circumstantially present at our (mostly) spontaneous events. Yes folks, we are stopping in quaint little college towns as well as large bustling cities. If you’d like us to host a visit shoot Emily an email at ghostsihavebeen@gmail.com.

DATES
St Louis, MO- Saturday, Aug 22nd @ Arcadia Studios/Floating Laboratories 7- 10pm with music by Ghosts I Have Been, Kevin Harris and Soft Serve
Lawrence, KS- Sunday Aug 23rd @ Solidarity
Vale, CO- Monday Aug 24th @ Charlie's place
Portland, OR- Thursday, Aug 26th @ Last Thursday
Seattle, WA- Friday, Aug 28 and 29 @ Missing Mountains Farm
Portland, OR- Tuesday, Sept 1st- 3rd @ Sandra's House/TBA
Eugene, OR- Friday, Sept 4th @ Museum of UnFine Art
Bay Area, CA- Monday, Sept 7th @ TBA
Albuquerque, NM- Thursday, Sept 10th @ TBA
Denver, CO- Friday, Sept 11th @ TBA
Kansas City, MO- Saturday, Sept 12th @ TBA
Columbia, MO- Sunday, Sept 13th @ TBA

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MoneyBags will tag along with the SPORE fall 2009 tour where bags will be filled and created by a slew of different people. Tonight we send them off into the wild west to see how they will return! The SPORE launch party is tonight at Arcadia Studios 528 W. Broadway, St Louis MO, 7pm-10pm- Come out and make money!

The bills that fill my bags...

2009-08-21T01:59:00.001-05:00

HeapsOfGood

2009-08-12T18:59:00.001-05:00

J.R.K.

2009-08-12T17:21:00.003-05:00

Jay Kurtz

This caught me by surprise today. Kurtz knocked out a painting inspired by similar MoneyBags ideals. $!

the coolest shit in this town

2009-08-10T15:40:00.003-05:00

http://artistruncreditleague.wordpress.com/

i like this. it promotes socialism and other things destroying america.

basically, if you're too lazy to cut-copy-paste the link into your toolbar... i'll be the summarizer for you:
let's say artstars lisa and stan want to dream big and put on spectacular shows.... but they only have 2 dollars each. then they form a collective into which they monthly pay, oh... say 2 bucks. then whatever's in the collective pot is rotated. so one month stan will have a whopping 4 bucks to fulfill his wildest art supply dreams and then next month lisa will blow all that cash on hookers and cocaine (as are her usual expenditures).
now multiply the number of people and up the monthly fee a few pearls.... then what happens?
genius.

What I like About the Recession Pt. 1

2009-08-10T02:39:00.002-05:00

Big Business now has to "keep it real"

Where's My Money (Caspa Remix)

2009-08-09T18:59:00.001-05:00

The Only ATM I Can Trust

2009-08-07T17:53:00.003-05:00

Lower East Side, Manhattan, NY

NewYork, New York

2009-08-07T02:18:00.003-05:00

Ongoing

2009-08-07T02:16:00.001-05:00

This is an ongoing project, so your participation can never be too early or too late. Help as much as you want and spread the word!

Project Launch

2009-08-07T02:14:00.003-05:00

MoneyBags takes a shot at re-evaluating wealth, worth and currency. It attempts to create unexpected reencounters with a familiar image/icon that has been popularly relegated to the realm of cartoons, illustrations, and the surreal. Ideas of ownership, abandonment, economy, luxury, generosity, legality, the ridiculous and any other matters of mind are also sprinkled into the project.

Originally, each bag was constructed, printed and stuffed with dollar bill sized prints of Stan Chisholm's (aka 18andCounting) poetic "One-Liner" phrases covering a gamut of topics about life, the abstract, and the humorous. The bags would then be left behind in unsanctioned public spaces, free for the taking or what have you.

(MoneyBags, Shibuya, Tokyo,)

Now headed by the duo of Chisholm and Lisa See Kim, MoneyBags is taking on an all-inclusive stance for anyone to participate in. Those who choose to take part are asked to construct their own MoneyBags, stuff them with any messages, items or creations of "value" then add them to Chisholm's & Kim's MoneyBags hoard to be distributed by the stack along with other bags. The donation of supplies, "valuables", empty self-made MoneyBags, and project space is also graciously encouraged.

The first MassiveMoneyBagsDrop will take place in October for the Art On Track show where we will fill a CTA train car! Aided by the Hyde Park Art Center, Chisholm and Kim will facilitate MoneyBags creation programs filled with screen printing, bag construction and the creation of "valuables." These will be hosted by HPAC throughout August and September 2009.

It is an ongoing project so you're help can never be too early or too late

For more info please contact Stan@18andCounting.com or LisaSeeKim@gmail.com

For project donations, please mail items to:
MoneyBags
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave 
Chicago, IL 60615

Trees

2009-08-06T00:22:00.001-05:00

MoneyGrowsOnTrees-YouCanCatchMeRakingTheLawn

Harajuku, Tokyo

2009-08-06T00:00:00.002-05:00

Area Chicago-Everbody’s Got (more) Money Issues

2009-08-05T23:47:00.004-05:00

A local exhibition and event series continuing the conversations from a local reader about money and its relationship to our work and lives.

Osaka, Japan

2009-08-05T22:30:00.001-05:00

AnarchistU

2009-08-05T00:51:00.001-05:00

Paying too much for school?
While it doesn't seem to be the most consistently run thing, but it sure is a generous idea. They probably don't deserve the title of a University, but i'm pretty sure the idea is unowned so hell... Take it and run!

Anyway, if you're tired of crying about college loans, and the schools you wanted to attend but couldn't afford you should pay Toronto a visit and get learned at the Anarchist Free University.

You wont get a degree, but you can network and probably meet some worthwhile people. Stop moaning about your pockets and go.

MoneyBagFinds: Lamont Duval

2009-08-05T00:32:00.000-05:00

MoneyBags In Japan

2009-08-03T16:31:00.001-05:00

Organized and Constructed MoneyBags stuffed with bill sized prints of my "OneLiner" phrases.
Dropped in public spaces and free for the taking or what have you.

WelcomeToMontana

2009-08-03T16:11:00.000-05:00

this guys got the idea

2009-08-03T10:56:00.001-05:00

http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/websites/intro.php?username=jhepburn

GrabThatCashWithBothHandsAndMakeAStash

2009-08-03T03:59:00.001-05:00

"MoneyMoneyMoney"

2009-08-03T03:57:00.001-05:00

...In the Begining

2009-08-02T14:57:00.003-05:00