World Species Market
World Species Market is a data-driven environmental artwork that reconfigures financial market systems to visualise global biodiversity loss.
The work appropriates the visual language of a stock exchange, replacing financial data with statistics from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Species are positioned within a system typically used to measure economic value, highlighting the tension between ecological sustainability and capitalist growth.
Originally exhibited on large-scale public screens, the work updates over time, incorporating new data to reflect the increasing number of species at risk.
By translating environmental data into a familiar economic format, World Species Market critiques the prioritisation of profit over ecological stability.
Exhibition history for World Species Market
Linden Art Prize, Linden New Art, 26 Acland St, St Kilda VIC. Dates 21 February – 30 March, 2014 (Version 4, 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species data)
Us and Them –Umwelten, RMIT Project Space Spare Room, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton. Dates May 11 – June 7, 2012 (Version 3, 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species data)
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, 1 Market Street, Newport. Dates: March 4 to the 28, 2010
World Species Market, International Urban Screens, Global Dates 16 November – 16 December, 2009 (Version 2, 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species data) International Urban Screen Association media release – World Species Market, 2009
World Species Market, Urban Screen Federation Square, corner of Swanston and Flinders Street, Melbourne. Dates- 5 June – 10 July, 2009. (Version 1 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species data
World Species Market, 2009 (Version 2) was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.