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