ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the overlapping, varied, and conflicting perceptions of value shared to the project, and explore how these can inform alternative ethical frameworks that care for and value women working in the arts. FavourEconomy was developed in 2015 as a participatory online audio gift economy, where women working in the arts could share self-authored audio recordings for the benefit of other women in the sector. Participating in the FavourEconomy involves the action of giving and receiving language, which can be understood as operating as an audio gift economy. FavourEconomy amplifies the currency of voicing and listening, actions of care operating outside neoliberalism, where value is measured and monetised. FavourEconomy has continued to actively re-orientate its position within the context of the Australian art world through embracing collaborative opportunities and claiming space within galleries, exhibitions, symposiums and residences in order to increase the project’s visibility, reach, community engagement and discourse.
