Drawing from alternative currencies, banking archives, pop culture and contemporary art, Creative Accounting scratches below the surface of the economic system to reveal money’s enigmatic side. Money is many things at once: an abstract rendering of value; an agent of propaganda; a decorative device. It plays a central role in all of our lives yet is often overlooked as an object of contemplation.
This exhibition will connect diverse local audiences with ideas around currency, economic systems and historical quirks at a time when money is becoming increasingly abstract in the digital age. It will present a multiplicity of ideas, mediums and narratives drawn from a wide sphere, with local archives ‘mined’ for content to complement the international and Australia content.
Creative Accounting includes work by Conrad Bakker, Ian Burns, Penelope Cain, Joachim Froese, Melanie Gilligan, Fiona Hall, Andrew Hurle, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Daniel McKewen, Christine McMillan, Kenzee Patterson, Ryan Presley, David Shapiro and Abdullah MI Syed; alongside objects from the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, the Westpac Group Archives, Hawkesbury Regional Museum and various private collections; and ancient coins from UQ’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum.
Opening
Friday 11 November 6.15 for 6.30 pm
to be opened by
Professor Iain Watson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement)
The University of Queensland
RSVP by Monday 7 November
Public Program
Friday 11 November 5.00 pm
‘Art and value’ discussion panel
Join thinkers and artists from Creative Accounting in a conversation around notions of value, exchange and human capital. Featuring: Holly Williams (exhibition curator), Professor Flavio Menezes (UQ School of Economics), and artists Andrew Hurle and Joachim Froese.
RSVP by Monday 7 November
Image: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Bagley-Clifford – ‘Office of the National Bank of Detroit’ (2000). From the series ‘Ruins of Detroit’, C-type print.
