The iconic former Bank of Manhattan building opens its doors, vaults and even illuminate The Clock Tower to host an immersive and ambitious site-specific exhibition.

As the title implies, How Much Do I Owe You? is a personal and conversational exploration into the new iterations of currency, value and exchange at this time of financial flux, growing debt and job insecurity.

From the virtualization of money to the rise of non-monetary barter networks, recent years have seen a re-thinking of forms and systems of exchange, and thus notions of value, commodity, and debt that surround them.

Inspired by the Bank building and the surrounding neighborhood, 26 artists from 15 countries confront these issues and how they are negotiated in the workforce, housing market, and in the every day. Curated by Chief Curator, Manon Slome, the public will experience a variety of media, from sound installations, projections, and film to participatory projects, immersive installations and large scale sculptures.

About Leonidas Martin and Enmedio

Among the participants on this conversation, the Spanish artist Leonidas Martin explores social interventions resulting from Spain current financial environment. For No Longer Empty's exhibition How Much Do I Owe You?, Leonidas Martin and Enmedio (a space in Barcelona whose fields of action stand in-between artistic practice and social intervention), present the work Los rostros del 99% (The faces of the 99%), created as part of Taller de Acción Fotográfica de Enmedio (TAF) (Enmedio's workshop for Photographic Action.)

The Faces of the 99% aims to inform New York audiences on Spain's current wave of evictions as well as to provide a platform for action —inviting audiences to write postcards to the financial institutions who are responsible for conducting these evictions. The project will take shape as a site-specific installation taking over one room in the basement of the bank near the vaults.

Leonidas Martin will also exhibit videos documenting his recent social actions in Spain such as La bolsa, la vida, Discongreso or Fiesta#Cierrra Bankia, which can be seen in a video of his presentation at the 2012 Creative Time Summit.

Exhibition hours: Thursday-Monday, 1 pm to 7 pm.

Venue

Venue

Bank of Manhattan Building, 29-27 41st Ave, Queens, NY

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