Jon Byler's Financial Plan

"you can have all of mine if you want. we could work to make you the most indebted person in the country, and then you could declare bankruptcy and set us all free. that would be awesome in so many ways."

What is Debt?

DEBT as listed by Erin Sickler, Christopher Kennedy at Tradeschool on February 25 as part of ARTWORK Newspaper Discussion, a project by Temporary Services.
cost of gradschool $100,000
Initial Curatorial salary $25000
In the Hole
Anxiety
Not free
What you owe
No safety net
Envy at Europeans and Canadians
Choice
Can debt be positive?
Debt as a form of currency
People want to buy and manage debt-- profitable debt
debt is a relationship
Delusion among cultural producers
Institutionally supported mechanism for debt
Artists
Bad relationship with money
fear of WEALTH
credit is potential debt
Having debt is better than not having credit at all
Not considered responsible adult unless we have owed something to someone else
gift/credit/debt
is anything for free?
debt is never created or destroyed, just moved around