Date: Sunday 13 May
Venue: Tate Modern

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Capital was a project for Tate Modern by artists Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska. It unfolded as a series of encounters between two iconic institutions, Tate and the Bank of England, and the economies they animate. The project was inaugurated with the issue of a gift - a limited edition print, distributed at Tate Modern and the Bank of England Museum, with an accompanying book published by Tate. The project also included a series of three seminars.

The first of these seminars looked at the concept of the gift and the way that gift-giving generates an economy of obligation and counter-obligation.

Speakers

• Marilyn Strathern (Social Anthropology, Cambridge University)
  
• John Urry (Sociology, Lancaster University)