The soul trade goes to the podium.
We Buy Souls began as the cheapest sign on the street. This week it keynoted a design conference in Brisbane, and the move from curb to auditorium is worth watching closely.
Ren Nakamura
Art Editor · Vancouver, B.C.
Canadian Art magazine senior writer 2013 to 2021. Independent curator. Covers visual art, music, film, and the economics of Canadian cultural production. Has interviewed more than 200 artists. Writes from inside the practice, not above it.
Beats: visual art, music, film, cultural economics, Canadian artists
Contact: r.nakamura@printmag.org
Forty thousand people called a number to sell their souls.
Rabi put a phone number on the street under three words, We Buy Souls, and asked a single question: what is yours worth. The answers, forty thousand of them, are the real work.