Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014  

# Code My Goods Their Goods

1 #507451 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “On Booze” (2011) = An Invitation to Jackie Lima’s Art

Show featuring 3-D Paintings

2 #507452

Excerpt of Dick Gregory’s “From the Back of the Bus” (1966) where

he is discussing how fascinating it is in America to be paid $5,000 a week to “for saying the same

things out loud that [he] used to say under [his] breath” about

oppression.

= A poem written on the spot about

love.

3 #507453 Frantz Fanon’s “Toward the African Revolution” (1964, reprint 1994) =

Excerpt of Anne Waldman’s 1975 poem, “Fast Speaking Woman”

4 #507454 Combahee River Collective Statement (1978) =

Recitation/Performance of the first line of Homer’s “Iliad”

5 #507455

Shirley Chisholm’s Speech “The Twin Jeopardies of Race and Sex”

(1974)

and

Mary Prince’s “The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave” (1831,

reprint 2010)

=

Mariana Cook’s “Generations of Women: In Their Own Words”

(1998)

and

Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture” (2008)

6 #507456

Wendy C. Ortiz’s “Excavation” (2014)

and

A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry

=

A personal memoir written on the spot.

A poem written on the spot.

 

 

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

7 #507457

Martin Esslin, “Theater of the Absurd” (1980)

Josephine Mayer and Tom

Prideaux’s “Never Die” (1938)

=

Two slam poems

An expired drink ticket and a used movie ticket

8 #507458 Doris Lessing’s “Memoir of a Survivor” (1974) =

A note written on the spot about the importance of bartering

9 #507459 Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome” (1911, reprint 1970) =

A surrealist parable about a large salmon.

10 #507460 Joseph Katz’s “Dreams are Your Truest Friends” (1975) =

A message to the world written on the spot

11 #507461

Excerpt of Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” (2010) where Alexander is exploring Bill Clinton’s investment in mass incarceration,

and budgetary backing on both the war on drugs and war on crime.

= A description of the day written in

Greek.

12 #507462

Excerpt of Susan Howe’s “My Emily Dickinson” (2007) where Howe is launching into an explication of

Dickinson’s My life had stood – a Loaded Gun

=

A performance of “I am Wishing” from Sleeping Beauty and one “Be Careful what You Wish”

sticker

13 #507463 Asha Bandele’s “Prisoner’s Wife” (2000) =

A new collection of poems by Bob Holman. Bob Holman

assembled his Xerox copies into a book using my stapler

   

   

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014  

# Code My Goods Their Goods

14 #507464 A blank handmade journal = Coconut shell bowl and tea

15 #507465 Incense and a quick conversation = “Better Call Sal” stickers

16 #507466 Combahee River Collective Statement (1978) =

H&M 20% coupon

17 #507467

Excerpt of Octavia’s Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” from the series Adulthood Rites (1989, reprint

2007) which begins “He remembered much of his stay in

the womb.”

= One Hale and Hearty Green Card

18 #507468

A blank handmade journal

An excerpt of Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” (1967, reprint 1995) from the chapter I.

Separation Perfected which begins with “1 The whole of life of those

societies in which modern conditions of production prevail

presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was lived directly has become

mere representation.”

=

An annotated and coffee stained scientific article by Matthew

Botvinick and Marc Toussaint entitled “Planning as inference”

(2012) which explores the underlying information

processing operations in the brain that allow for future planning

     

 

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

19 #507469

Excerpt of Octavia’s Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” from the series Adulthood Rites (1989, reprint

2007) which begins “He remembered much of his stay in

the womb.”

and

Excerpt of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” (1970, reprint 1972) which begins, “Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall

of 1941.”

=

A poem written on the spot called “ Paper Clothing” about having a friend in a psych ward

20 #507470

An excerpt of Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” (1967, reprint 1995) from the chapter I.

Separation Perfected which begins with “1 The whole of life of those

societies in which modern conditions of production prevail

presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was lived directly has become

mere representation.”

= A poem written on the spot about

social media culture

21 #507471

John O.E. Clark’s “Pocket Tables: An Everyday Reference” (2002) which includes 100 tables like

Temperature Scales and Conversion, Highest Mountains and Heights, Periodic Table, Greek and

Roman Gods

= Performance of an original song

   

 

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

22 #507472

Excerpt of Octavia’s Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” from the series Adulthood Rites (1989, reprint

2007) which begins “He remembered much of his stay in

the womb.”

= A poem in progress called “The

Dark Horse”

23 #507473

Saidiya V. Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson’s “The Position of

Unthought” (2002) which explores post-slavery subjectivities.

and

An excerpt of E. Franklin Fraizer’s “The Negro Church in America”

(1963, reprint 1969)

=

Nick Hornby’s “Polysyllabic Spree” (2004)

and

Judith Butler Montano’s “Art and

Inspirations” (1997)

24 #507474 Mat Johnson’s “Pym” (2011), “As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life” (1967), Issue #10 of PANK (2014)

= Dead Student Society Manifesto

25 #507475 Wax Poetics #34 =

A drawing of a fishing net

and

A list of things PJ listened to on Sunday

26 #507476 Donald C. Freeman’s “Essays in Modern Stylistics” (1981) =

A poem written on the spot about birds

27 #507477 Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift: How the

Creative Spirit Transforms the World” (2007)

=

A short story written on the spot about how her creative process is nurtured by dramatic moments in

her life  

 

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

27 #507477 Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift: How the

Creative Spirit Transforms the World” (2007)

=

A short story written on the spot about how her creative process is nurtured by dramatic moments in

her life

28 #507478

Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States” (2010)

and

David Walker’s “David Walker’s Appeal” (1830, reprint 1995)

=

A reflection on Henrietta Lacks

and

A reflection on a revolution in Guatemala

29 #507479 Nicolas White’s translation of “The Enchiridion by Epictetus” (135 CE,

1983 translation) =

A self-written guide to Kemtic knowledge, language and

doctrines

30 #507480 A blank handmade journal = Swedish proverb

31 #507481 Rudyard Kipling’s “Gunga Din” (1892, reprint 2012) =

A reflection on the paradoxes of “White Men’s Burden”

32 #507482 Gabby Bess’ “Alone with Other People” (2013) =

A poem written on the spot about teenage angst

32 #507483 George Orwell’s “1984” (1949, reprint 1984) =

A reflection written on the spot about what the future holds

33 #507484 Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life

from Dear Sugar” (2012) =

Self-authored advice on how to deal with a broken heart and

depression  

 

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

34 #507485 Issue #9 of PANK (2014) = A poem written on the spot about

trading powers

35 #507486 Nick Hornby’s “Polysyllabic Spree” (2004) =

New York Times Magazine, p.30 entitled “Walkabout” by

Elizabeth Weil (September 28, 2014)

36 #507487

Excerpt of Susan Howe’s “My Emily Dickinson” (1966) where Howe is launching into an explication of

Dickinson’s My life had stood – a Loaded Gun

and

Excerpt of Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” (1977, reprint 1987) which begins, “Once again he did his Christmas shopping in a Rexall

drugstore.”

= Disorientation Lawyers Conference pamphlet

37 #507488 Jennifer Toth’s “The Mole People” (1995) =

A story about the Derinkuyu Underground City in Turkey

38 #507489 Wax Poetics #42 =

A reflection written on the spot about the power of music

and

Her favorite song

39 #507490 A blank handmade journal = A drawing of a panda

   

Barter Exchange List Site: DUMBO Art Festival

Date: 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014

# Code My Goods Their Goods

40 #507491 A blank handmade journal = A handmade postcard

41 #507492

Bary Colombari’s “Today's Missal: Breaking Bread 1999 with Annual

Music Issue - November 29, 1998 - November 25, 1999” (1999)

= A journal entry ripped from his

composition notebook

42 #507493 A blank handmade journal = A quote

43 #507494 Robert K. Massie’s “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman” (2012) =

A reflection written on the spot about being the only female

trader and receiving very little support or respect

44 #507495 Angela Davis’ “Are Prisons Obsolete?” (2003) =

A list of solutions to world problems

45 #507496 Mariana Cook’s “Generations of Women: In Their Own Words”

(1998) =

p. 7-8 of Ava Dellaira's "Love Letters from the Dead" (2014)