Seed Exchange copies the techniques of the stock exchange turning this overtly capitalist technique of reducing the planet to a commodity into a communal act thats places the seeds at the centre. Participants brought in their own seeds and wrote what they were trading on the front of the trading bibs and the seeds they would like on the back.

The work doubled, through the trading bibs, was a direct protest large seed companies like Monsanto who are trying to patent seeds and stop farmers who save seeds from the years harvest. Instead Monsanto want farmers to buy seeds from them every year and aggressively pursue people who they view as a threat to this. The project highlights this issue through positively encouraging communal seed exchanges where seeds are the currency not money as they are valuable enough in themselves.

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