Derivart is an interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary arts

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 art group

Art group

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 located in Barcelona

Barcelona

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. It is constituted by Jesús Rodríguez (fine art

Fine art

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ist and independent curator

Curator

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), Mar Canet ( an creative engineer) and Daniel Beunza (a sociologist of finance

Finance

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). The collective is active since 2004, during this time they did several art projects and one curatorship project in 2006 call "Derivaties, new financial visions".

Some more relevant projects are:

• Burbujometro(2007):
• Hipotecadora(2007)
• The Mortgager(2007)
• Casastristes.org (2007):
• Spreadplayer(2008)
• The inspector(2009)
• The manager(2009)

Exhibitions

(Catalogue of exhibition http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/UserFiles/File/CATALOGOS/HLL_cat_final.pdf)