Financial Inclusion for Undocumented Communities: From Strategies to Practices
11–24Moderator: Xiaoji Song
Speakers: Malou Lintmeijer, Savannah Koolen, and Eunice de Asis, Stichting Here to Support; Daphnee Prates Iglesias, UN-IGF; Sarah Habib, independent FinTech Strategist.
Full video coming soon.
Community, Advocacy
Lake Reclamation Code
10–24
Lake Reclamation Code is a participatory performance on aliens, lakes, and empires. Through tracing the political history related to four phases of land reclamation in the city of Wuhan and the neoliberal imaginaires contructed in those historic snippets, the performance uses speculation and rule-based horrors to open up friction and fiction of more-than-human solidarity.
Game, Performance, Research, Speculation
Fluid Safety
10–23Game, Advocacy, Research
The Parallel Society
11-23
Project supported by Interledger Foundation, find out more on this episode of FUTURE|MONEY podcast.
Installation
Karaoke Against Censorship
10–23Karaoke Against Censorship is an open karaoke event that invites dissidents, activists, and citizens who have lived under authoritarianism, or allies who have families and friends impacted by these repression to curate a list of songs together: we invite you to submit songs that have been censored now or in the past, or depicting revolutionary struggles and protest movements in different localities, we encourage everyone to sing in our languages without censorship in Berlin together.
As an open karaoke format, Karaoke Against Censorship wishes to promote productive urban friction through collective singing and dialoguing in open spaces. By singing together different censored songs, the event aims to create visibility for the struggles of migrants who have lived or are still now living under censorship, and create space to foster transnational solidarity among dissidents from different contexts and backgrounds.
Community, Social Practice
Emotional Futures
07-23Emotional Futures is collaboratively produced by IRL: Marcel Darienzo, Carina Erdmann, Steph Holl-Trieu, Andrew Pasquier, Xiaoji Song, Moritz Tontsch and Ingeborg Wie Henriksen.
Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation. Photo: Tarek Effat
Emotional Futures is a web-based game that invites players to invest in their emotional future through interactions with friends. After each exchange, players evaluate their emotional output, turning them into liquid currencies: Blood, Sweat and Tears. These feed each player's unique Emoxy — an alchemical virtual creature that evolves with every level. The Emoxy accompanies players on their journey, inviting them to continue investing in their own growth while at the same time questioning the game’s logic. This situates the game in critical proximity to self-improvement apps (like mindfulness or wellbeing applications) that measure and gamify personal development. The more players interact with Emotional Futures, the more they are encouraged to reflect on the ways in which technologies are used to manipulate and monetise their emotions. Emotional Futures was conceived during The Communes, a hackathon organised in 2021 by Black Swan, an artist-led DAO.
Game, Research, Speculation
Alien without Extraordinary Ability
05-23Premiere: May 9th 2023, Berliner Ringtheater, Germany(APAL@Amnasia.6 residency).
Alien without Extraordinary Ability is a performance on the racialized and colonial logics behind the arbitrary quantification of migrant labor. The performance features a love story between aliens (as migrants) and aliens (as non-earthlings) fusion of dystopian science fiction, where intimacy, labor, nationalism, and diversity discourses were discussed in an absurd theatrical constellation.
Performance, Research, Speculation, Text, Community
Alien Names
06–23Alien Name is an extended scene of Alien without Extraordinary Ability, discussing colonial continuities in sex trafficking and forced migration, and has been now submitted to Hawthorn Archive by Avery F. Gordon.
Text, Community, Performance