Mobile Akademie Berlin / Lizenz #12
Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
Markt für nützliches Wissen und Nichtwissen
Frankfurt LAB (Gallus)
Discourse/Performance
frankfurt-lab.com
Frankfurt, Saturday, 16 September 2023
19:00 – 22.30 (check-in from 18:00)
mousonturm.de
First-round experts are available for booking beginning at 18:00. Each 30-minute conversation costs 1€. It is possible to sign up for a conversation in the next round on an ongoing basis.
➠ Book a 1:1 conversation with Igor Štromajer!
With the hard drive to the Centre Pompidou
“In the mid-1990s, artists in a disintegrating Yugoslavia explored the Internet as an open frontier. Freely accessible, requiring no passwords or tickets (but also offering no payment), it functioned as canvas, stage, and means of production. Net art pioneer Igor Štromajer believed in the punk utopia of Internet art beyond the market. In light of the privatised platforms that characterise today’s online landscape, however, he asks himself the question: what source of income is possible for net artists other than selling old hard drives to museums?”
Photo: Thomas Aurin
Of Analogue Values, Digital Currencies and the Quantification of the World
A classic format of performative knowledge appropriation: 90 experts pick up the scent of money at scales small, big, and personal, showing how cryptocurrencies challenge banks and states, and close the gaps of the saleable. The Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge is a place for exchanging knowledge, an archive and a reading room, a stock exchange, and a counselling service all at the same time.
Book a 1:1 call for €1 or listen to the conversations on the 8 channels of the Market Radio!
Money generates, transforms, destroys ties between people and people, people and things, things and things. This has (almost) always been the case. Acceleration is increasing, the market ticks in real time and trades with the future: nowhere is the digitalisation of the world more striking than in the economic sphere. Cryptocurrencies are replacing bank accounts; alternative payment systems are challenging the power of states, which in turn are trying to counter the competition from global technology and platform corporations.
The total virtualisation of reality promises its equally total commodification. Everything – real and virtual objects, memories, feelings, care – becomes a potential carrier of value, a possible object of speculation, a token.
Money is a relational tool. It creates relationships: of debt and guilt, of dependencies, of prosperity and poverty. It irrationally rationalises the world. It is used to compare the value of things, activities, relationships, but also of people. Money is the face of capital, fetish, metaphor and machine, threatening and desirable.
In an arena running on the rhythm of administrative time, 90 experts from the fields of art, activism, theory and from a myriad of everyday careers will present their expertise: What, actually, is this strange medium of money that has been argued about for at least two and a half millennia? The Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge traces the developments of money, looks at what it makes possible and what it does by adopting the refrain of investigative journalists and marriage swindlers: Follow the money!
Photo: Stefan Beer
Lizenzgeberin: Hannah Hurtzig
Kurator: Florian Malzacher
Dramaturg: Philipp Scholtysik
Projektleiterin: Ulrike Voidel
mobileacademy-berlin.com
zevedi.de
Ein Projekt der Mobilen Akademie Berlin, produziert vom Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Kooperation mit ZEVEDI, dem Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung. Ein Projekt im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. ZEVEDI wird gefördert von der Hessischen Ministerin für Digitale Strategie und Entwicklung.
intima • Igor Štromajer 