{"id":1361,"date":"2009-10-30T00:39:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/10\/an_artists_alternative_to_mate\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T00:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T07:39:43","slug":"an_artists_alternative_to_mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/an_artists_alternative_to_mate.php","title":{"rendered":"An artist&#8217;s alternative to material wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era when our economy is in flux, and many are revisiting their penchant for buying more stuff, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats offers another way: buy the <i>opposite<\/i> of stuff. His upcoming exhibit on The First Bank of Antimatter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/29\/artist-says-we-will.html\">BoingBoing blog here<\/a>, and here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernisminc.com\/exhibitions\/Jonathon_KEATS--THE_FIRST_BANK_OF_ANTIMATTER\/?image=Jonathon%20KEATS\">the exhibition site<\/a>) suggests a mirror marketplace to reinvigorate our current one. Says he:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Economic equilibrium is upset by our unbalanced pursuit of material<br \/>\nwealth&#8230;. My plan is to offset materialism with modern<br \/>\nscience, by exploiting the economic potential of antimatter, which is<br \/>\nthe physical opposite of anything made with atoms, from luxury condos<br \/>\nto private jets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The exhibit creates a new form of currency, backed by antimatter stored in a vault. Sounds like a plan to me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"positrons.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/positrons.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"141\" width=\"400\" \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era when our economy is in flux, and many are revisiting their penchant for buying more stuff, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats offers another way: buy the opposite of stuff. His upcoming exhibit on The First Bank of Antimatter (BoingBoing blog here, and here&#8217;s the exhibition site) suggests a mirror marketplace to reinvigorate our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}