The Economy Is Spinning began as an exhibition project and public program aimed at exploring the language of economics and finance—a language that permeates our vocabularies and shapes our imagination. Contributions are by a group of nine international artists, writers and theorists including Mercedes Azpilicueta, Kris Dittel, Zachary Formwalt, Sara Giannini, Monique Hendriksen, Jan Hoeft, Sami Khatib, Hanne Lippard, Toril Johannessen, Robertas Narkus, Antonis Pittas, Nick Thurston, McKenzie Wark, and Rafaela Dražic, who together consider the economy as a “performing body” revealing itself through the underlying mechanisms of language. The fully illustrated softcover reader presents images, essays, and texts addressing how the language of economics and finance influences our thinking and expression. Kris Dittel is an independent curator and editor living and working in the Netherlands. She is an associate curator at the Onomatopee project space in Eindhoven, an art book publisher, and member of the research duo The Translation Trip, who investigates translation as practice, philosophical notion, and curatorial device.

Editor: Kris Dittel
Design: Rafaela Dražić
Year: 2017
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 9 x 6 in.
Cover: Softcover
ISBN: 978-94-91677-61-8
Language: English