Call it the revenge of the hippies. Many people forget that back in the 1960s the hippies were just as obsessed with corporate corruption as they were with psychedelic drugs. When people talk about hippies these days they always forget about all their experiments with alternate economic systems and all the volunteering the long-haired kids did. Man... More
Posts Tagged “Free Store”
Diary of a Crazy Artist: Occupy to the Rescue: Revenge of the Hippies: Martha Rosler at MoMA
11.21.2012 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
Trip Without A Ticket: Free Store Variations
12.15.2009 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
The Diggers
I’ll start the ‘variations survey’ with an off-handed proposal by the Diggers, who popularized the free-store as a radical transformation of space and value. Their free store (above) was realized in San Francisco, 1968.
“A perfect dispenser would be an open Automat on the street…No owner, no manager, no empl... More
