Abstract
As our world has changed rapidly and ineluctably with the COVID-19 pandemic, many are advocating an ethos of generosity and a gift economy, based on generative, creative offerings, as an alternative or balance to the excesses of a mainstream neoliberal exchange economy. What is the gift economy, and how does it entangle us in a fabric of mutual responsibility, obligation, creative practices and love, within the human and greater-than-human world? A Pay-It-Forward New Year's gift game amongst a group of artist/ educators, ongoing since 2014, gives rise to this meditation on the gift economy, based on Mauss, Hyde, Kimmerer, Vaughan and Jordan's work and contemplation of intergenerational, inter-being webs of mutuality. Visual artwork (photography and painting), and poetry and song that inspired and arose from the Pay-It-Forward engagement are part of this piece.
Recommended Citation
Gerofsky, Susan; Barney, Daniel; and Gerard, MIra
(2020)
"Paying It Forward: A Gift Economy of Poetry and Visual Art Images,"
Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol5/iss1/5
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