Saturday, July 13, 2024, 11:00 am start to 12:00 pm end
Location: Salem Art Works, 19 Cary Ln, Salem, NY, 12865
Join us for the 12th Harder Barter Market (HBM) at Salem Art Works in Salem, NY!
Brought to you by “Lifetime Guarantee” Artists Kristen Tordella-Williams and Jenny Hillenbrand
“We invite you to bring any handheld, tradeable items to barter with fellow participants! Bring some small pieces of art, tools, raw materials, or swag, you can also get creative with an “IOU” ie. help with yard work or cooking a meal. The purpose of this event is to bring artists of all backgrounds and career stages together equally to have a go at self-promotion, negotiation, valuing goods, networking, and taking chances! Most importantly we want to have fun! One folk's patch is another folk's treasure. Come one, come all, come barter!”
This event includes megaphones and sound. Earplugs will be available.
Limited seating is available.
Free and open to all ages.
If you are on Instagram, you can follow & tag the artists @HarderBarterMarket. They invite you to share the goods you plan to bring and previous ‘hoards’ you’ve traded for during past HBMs!
Photo Credit: John David Carcache
Lifetime Guarantee is a collaboration between Jenny Hillenbrand (Cambridge, NY) and Kristen Tordella-Williams (Opelika, AL). They met at Alfred University in 2010 and have since created multiple performances, collaborative experiences, and companion sculptures. Their work creates liminal spaces for communities to gather, reform their relationship to individual and communal value, and engage in play. Lifetime Guarantee works together across media and distance to bring together explosively fun experiences for participants, communities, and artists. Thematically focused on questioning traditional gender roles and economies, their most popular work “The Harder Barter Market” invites participants to barter their handmade goods in an energetic marketplace under the guidance of the collaborative duo. After over a decade of creating artwork together, Lifetime Guarantee is currently exploring new ways of connecting people through curation, guided collaborative projects, and publicly accessible placemaking.
Photo Credit: John David Carcache