Economist and philosopher Georgios Papadopoulos (Berlin) will give a keynote lecture on the causes and consequences of expressing social values in money. He argues that we would be happier if we understood that the financial value of what we do is neither correct nor important. Artist and writer Renée Ridgway (Amsterdam) talks about her long-term research ‘Beaver, Wampum, Hoes’ central to which is the phenomenon of ‘cultural currency’. With cultural currency Ridgway refers to a form of exchange where non-economic meanings, such as the cultural and social, are factored in.In the video program, ‘How do you earn your money?’ artist Jeroen Jongeleen, aka influenza, will talk about his artistic practice. In September 2012 Jongeleen’s ’Free Money for All’ project saw him scatter 200 million in homemade Euro notes along the Witte de Withstraat, an amount equal to the government cuts to the arts sector.
Spoken languages: English and Dutch
Entry: €3,-
About the speakers on March 27:
Georgios Papadopoulos is an economist and philosopher who examines the socio-economic functions of money. He received a Master of Philosophy of the Social Sciences ’Money and the Representation of Value, an Inquiry on the Economic Constitution of Sociality’. Papadopoulos lives in Berlin where leads a research project on the Greek economy entitled ’Iconographies of the Drachma, Speculations on Symbolic Value’. In 2011 he published his first book, ’Notes Towards a Critique of Money’.
Renée Ridgway is an artist, curator and writer. Her work has been shown extensively internationally, including Manifesta 8 (2010), the Cloth Hall Museum in Leiden (2009), Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2008), Central Museum Utrecht (2006), and the P.S.1.MoMa in New York (2000). In her work she uses a variety of media such as video, audio, text, textiles, and drawings. She has participated in many conferences, forums and publications on research oriented artistic practices. Ridgway received a Master of Fine Arts from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
Jeroen Jongeleen is a Rotterdam artist. He makes his work both in public space and within the museum context, with spray on canvas or with materials he finds, such as discarded kitchen cabinets and hardboard. Many of his works are textual in nature. In his texts Jongeleen reflects on the morals of the art world, the effects of mass consumption, and the decay of modern ideals. Recent presentations include Armory Show in New York (2012), Kunstfort Asperen (2011), TENT (2010).
The next episode will take place on Wednesday, April 24 at 20:00 in TENT.