Become a "transhumanist slave"

If this art project was a being conducted by a fraternity in the US there would be calls to throw them off campus. But this is a legit, well-intentioned effort to raise awareness about the nature of slavery. I think it raises very interesting questions about the line between wage slavery, aka "work," and wage-less slavery, and the website is some very cool flash.

SLAVES4SALE.COM

The art project SLAVES4SALE.COM focuses on commodification and represents a variety of dreams and projects which are sold at auction on line. The website will showcase a wide range of problems and concepts and we are looking for interesting as well as original dreams to characterize the dawn of the 21st century.

We would therefore warmly welcome a 'transhumanist slave'.
We also kindly invite you to signal this site to friends and community boards.

THIS CHRISTMAS BUY A SLAVE, IT IS AN ORIGINAL PRESENT.

You may obtain more information at:

WWW.SLAVES4SALE.COM - LAUNCH – Press Release
Online press kit: http://www.slaves4sale.com/presskit.html - CHRISTMAS SLAVES
Website: http://WWW.SLAVES4SALE.COM

Did you know there are still about 20 million slaves in existence today? You’ll find them in countries such as Mauritania, the United States, Europe and Sudan.

So how do you eradicate this blight on humanity?

Lanfranco Aceti, a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at Central Saint Martins College of Art Design in London offers an ingenious, if somewhat irreverent creative solution.

Simply sell yourself into slavery!

Aceti has recently established an art web-site (WWW.SLAVES4SALE.COM) where you can actually sell yourself to a prospective buyer for, say, a one week period. For that time you’ll be at your buyer’s complete beck and call, catering to his every whim – e.g. cleaning his house, running his errands etc.

To avoid any kind of weirdness, ground rules can be established between the two parties before the transaction is sealed.

The money that the buyer pays for your enslavement? Well, that would go directly to finance a dream or to an organization that specializes in buying out a real slave’s freedom – e.g. Amnesty International.

Aceti has already put himself up for sale. His price? $5,000 for a week. “I’ll do anything for my buyer during that time - short of wiping his ass” said the affable Italian.

However, given most people’s constraints on time, Aceti also offers an alternative approach.

Commodify yourself instead. In other words, turn yourself into say, a toaster. Sell yourself as such on the same web-site. You’d therefore be your owner’s tool for him to burn and pop whenever he felt like it.

LET’S TALK.

To book an interview, program an exhibition or to have more details and images about this project, visit the website http://WWW.SLAVES4SALE.COM or alternatively you may contact:

Manager & PR: John J. Francescutti, john@communart.com Tel. ++ 857-919-1418 (in the US)
Artist: Lanfranco Aceti, lanfranco@communart.com Tel. ++44(0)790-411-7441 (in the UK)
Online press kit: http://www.slaves4sale.com/presskit.html