Fair Art Fair: Breath Brokerage 

As part of Occupy Museums' Fair Art Fair (Free Art for Fair Exchange), held outside of the Armory Show in New York City, the Breath Brokerage mobile art booth allowed visitors to purchase art using their own breath as currency. In the words of Julia Halperin of ArtInfo, the booth "was offering small clay sculptures he had created while holding his breath in exchange for any creative product a fairgoer could make in a single breath. (This reporter wrote him a one-sentence article.)" And also available at the booth: "Visitors would blow a given number of breaths into a balloon in exchange for a balloon filled with one fewer breaths. Though the reference to various economic bubbles was clear, the performance also related nicely to the commerce going on inside. 'Obviously, you have to give me one more breath than I have,' the demonstrator said with a wink. 'I have to make a profit.'" Link to full article here.

Related:

Un-Frieze, Action at Randall's Island Park
May 6, 2012