{"id":385,"date":"2007-04-15T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/?p=385"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:56:25","slug":"personal-exchange-a-social-investment-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasasmuth.art\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"personal exchange: a social investment proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

personal exchange: a social investment proposal<\/strong><\/em> is an interventionist performance that proposes a artist funding vehicle based off the dire need for organ donors. visitors schedule appointments for a consultation to explore if they would be willing to donate their organs\/body to transplant in exchange for stock and liquid capital.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>the black market for transplants is extermely profitable and widespread; it would take very little to establish a legal means to solve the shortage of donors and reward those who make the commitment. the subtext of this imagined corporate entity: what if you could find personal financial security by doing the morally right thing?<\/em><\/p>\n

This project, the Artist Donor Alliance (ADA), is interested in satisfying a desire held by myself and many of my contemporaries. This is the desire to do what is right and have it economically reward you.<\/p>\n

The mission is to foster the community of artists both financially and morally through the legitimate methods of the economy.<\/p>\n

The proposal is to use a balance of scientific realism, humanist understanding, and socially responsible action in order to benefit both humanity-at-large and the artist in the capitalist society. The methods of ADA are to establish a legal vehicle of investment income for the artist by fulfilling needs of Organ Procurement Organizations.