Join us for a closing event and final tour of the 9th Street Stock Exchange!
For nine weeks, the historic 9th Street Italian Market has turned into a participatory public art project. Led by artist Jon Rubin, the 9th Street Stock Exchange sets up an alternate economic system between recent immigrant and established businesses that operate in close proximity to each other but are often separated by cultural and socioeconomic differences.
Free event, please RSVP in ticket link
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More about the project:
Rotating weekly, the participating stores displayed and selling selected products from each other’s businesses, facilitating new social connections by experimentally incorporating an aspect of each other’s identity into their own. A circle of trust is constructed through the project as each participant business becomes familiar and invested in a small way in the commercial welfare of the other participants. Products that in one business are culturally specific and expected by a regular customer base become strangely incongruous and newly present through this weekly act of dislocation.
Audiences can gain a deeper understanding of the project and the participating businesses (all located on South 9th Street between Christian & Federal) by taking a guided tour.
Closing Event & Tour: 9th Street Stock Exchange
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