Name: “Who can afford to not sell their own skin?” - Jay Tan
Start: 2023-02-14T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-02-14T19:00:00+01:00
Location: W139

“Who can afford to not sell their own skin?” - Jay Tan

W139 is a presentation and production space for contemporary art. W139 was established in 1979 and provides artists time and space for free explorations in the heart of Amsterdam.

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A series of weekly screenings at W139 responding to the prompt "Who can afford not to sell their own skin?".

As part of W139&#x27;s upcoming exhibition, Dead Skin Cash, six artists are invited to react to the prompt &quot;Who can afford to not sell their own skin?&quot; by curating a playlist of visual and audio materials for this weekly screening programme. Jay Tan was born in London and moved to the Netherlands in 2008. They completed the MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2010 and were a 2014/15 resident at the Rijksakademie. Based in Rotterdam, they make sculptures and installations, sometimes with video and sound, or other moving parts, often with a focus on domestic mechanics and decoration. They currently teach at the Masters of Artistic Research programme at KABK, Den Haag and the Fine Arts Dept at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. They have shown work at Tent, Rotterdam; the CACC, Paris; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Ellen de Bruijne Projects and Gallerie van Gelder, Amsterdam; Futura, Prague; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; Vleeshal, Middleburg; the CAC, Vilnius; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Hollybush Gardens, London; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam and RongWrong, Amsterdam.- In the exhibition Dead Skin Cash, artists Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri take dead skin as a starting point to zoom in on the ambiguities within our relationship to flaking epidermis — the tensions between its acceptance and rejection (some keep it, some scrub it away), its proximity and our neglect, our indifference and its unstoppable production, our obsession and care but disgust once it leaves the body.Offering €20 per gram, dead skin collection networks emerged through gossip, online advertisements, business cards, and stickers distributed around the city repeating the slogan “get money for your dead skin”. A naive attempt to create a new kind of currency while simultaneously diverting and redistributing public money to people who took the bait out of curiosity, necessity, or entertainment. Within this context, an intimate and immediate material such as skin becomes a possible commodity. How dirty can money be? What happens when a value is set on something we expel from our bodies? When there is the possibility of getting a reward for something that is usually discarded, dilemmas arise between economic interests, integrity, ethics, labour, and exploitation—echoing the metaphor of ‘selling your own skin’. Despite this enticing offer, some people had no interest in this exchange, provoking the question “who can afford not to sell their own skin?”.

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