Counter Culture Cash

Athena Robles and Anna Stein

Counter Culture Cash

Fictitious local currency, digital print

Athena Robles and Anna Stein deploy the concept of circulating a fictitious local currency in an interactive project. In exchange for passers by having a photo taken, the subject would be given 5 Jamaican bucks, redeemable at five local vendors, such as a deli or a 99 cent store who agreed to participate. The accumulated photos are going to be exhibited in the gallery exhibition at JCAL. During the exhibition period, five hundred Jamaican bucks circulated through the community. – Kóan Jeff-Baysa

Athena Robels holds an MFA degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1995), and has shown her work at locations including the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (2006), American Museum of Natural History, NY (2005) and Asia Society, NY (2002). She will work in collaboration with Anna M. Stein, who holds a BFA degree from School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2001). Stein’s works have been featured at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2006), Longwood Art Project, Bronx, NY (2005), George Washington University, Washington DC (2000), and other locations.