Baratto (barter in Italian) -barato (cheap in spanish) is an itinerant participatory installation with the purpose of reflect on others possibilities of circulation of consumer products. The intervention Baratto-barato was first performed at the Festival “Perpetracions” (Barcelona).
The installation is constituted by a room where are placed objects found in the streets. Visitors were invited to take with them any objects and left there what they had at hand: this dynamic create a chain of exchanges.
The work has a corresponding blog (www.barattobarato.blogspot.com) where are reported the photos of the exchanged objects.
Happening
Year: 2009
Technique: participatory happening, objects found in the streets
Dimensions: 3m x 2m