It’s shopping, but not as you know it!
Transactionland is an artwork, ‘shop’, community space & venue for thinking about economics. Created by artist Rachael Clerke, the first iteration of Transactionland took place in Bristol at Bricks St Anne’s House in March 2022.
You can see the archived programme from Transactionland Bristol here, or read about what happened in the shop in more detail here.
Transactionland Bristol was supported by Arts Council England Project Grants, Bricks, Bristol City Council, the 2021 Situations Award & Out of Hand
Press coverage: Guardian (9th March 2022), Bristol 24/7 (2nd March 2022), Huck Magazine (22nd September 2022)
Rachael Clerke is a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. They make artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life ‘should’ look like.
These have included: a performance score for 3-5 year olds to take power over institutional art space; a piece of gig theatre about concrete architecture featuring a drag king punk band; a book of 151 ideas for overthrowing the government; a quilt of data from the 2019 general election; a DIY business selling shares in a communal bicycle; a podcast about private renting.
Rachael is part of Interval, a collective of artists sharing a studio above St Nicholas market in Bristol.
Photo by Ruby Turner
PEOPLE
Transactionland at St Anne’s House, March 2022
Lead artist: Rachael Clerke
Artist Assistants: Linzy Na Nakorn & Scarlett Smyth
Bricks team: Jess Akerman, Georgia Bates, Rosie Bowery, Jack Gibbon, Jo Kimber, Ruby Turner
Design: Conway & Young
Programmed artists: Vijay Patel, Hilary Powell & Dan Edelstyn, Jarsquad (Rachel Dobbs, Tess Wilmot, Carmen Wong), Paula Varjack, Gillie Kleiman, Conway & Young, Amy Mason, Hunt & Darton
Thank you for volunteering your time to be shop assistants: Katherine Hall, Ania Varez, Hannah Sullivan, Daisy Moon, Sophie Alda, Jen Conway, Eleanor Duffin, Bun Kulvichit, Danny Prosser & Bryony Gillard. For reading over and feeding back on my arts council application, and for general hardcore support & belief: Maria Brewster & Nina Lyndon. For help with getting the ideas out & making the stuff happen: Jen Conway, Martha King, Alice Quigley, Hannah Sullivan, Ben Thomas. For practical things; building, lending equipment, storing stuff: Matthew Graham, Sean Clark, Interval, Bristol Scrap Store, Henry Kenyon, Coexist Community Kitchen, FairShare. For doughnuts: Future Doughnuts. For getting the word out on a billboard: Mattaea Ball & Nigel Muntz at Out of Hand. For putting up with me and letting me hang out: the MAYK team & all the tenants at Bricks St Anne’s House.