Adam Linder
FOOTNOTE SERVICE: SOME TRADE
April 28 - 29, 2018
1010 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
A ‘choreographic service’ bartered with Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles for three dancers and a saxophonist.
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The tendency, associated with the commodity, for exchange value to dominate in capitalist societies
results in the fact that certain methods of transferring, aggregating, and storing time are better
than others in terms of how practical they are in an exchange value context.*
In a sense the very aim of barter is to create and quench desires in oneself and the other.**
*Diedrich Diederichsen, (Over)production and Value (Sternberg Press, 2017)
**Caroline Humphrey, Barter, Exchange and Value (Cambridge University Press, 1992)