Wayward Economy is an exhibition exploring the possibilities and space for alternative economies within the contemporary economic mainstream through presenting different positions that reflect, intervene, resist, subvert or investigate the economic structures and the society we live in. Eight projects are brought together to explore issues ranging from informal economies, such as sex work, betel nut shops in Taiwan, or dabbawallas in Mumbai, to the exploitation of the Other's cultures and counter-exploitation of the net activism, to alternatives and utopias in the age of globalization.

As part of the public sphere, the exhibition is an interdisciplinary enterprise, a joint project of artists, architects, social activists and netivists forming a laboratory of wayward economy in search of new models and strategies or different networks of economy. To materialize the idea of a lab, a platform is built in the exhibition site, which serves not only as a space to display some of the artworks but also as a temporary node for networking and interaction between visitors and aritsts.

The catalogue attempts at a second presentation of the exhibition in a different format. Just as in the exhibition's presentation, each artist and artist group joined the curators to formulate their projects in the catalogue as precisely as possible, so that the work are made more accesible to those who did not visit the exhibition itself. A section called 'Extra' is also included in the catalogue as well as in the exhibition, which consists of many other projects related to wayward economy.

With project descriptions by the participants. Other participants include Big Hope, Karl-Heinz Klopf, Re-code.com and Oliver Ressler.