Speculative Economies

Event Series

April-May 2025

As our collective au JUS is facing financial burnout, we would like to invite you – our neighbors, our guests, our friends, our patrons, our followers, our tax advisors, our situationships, our competitors – into an elaborate conversation around cash, credit, capital, and anxiety.

Speculative Economies is a proposal for an artistic game salon that brings together perspectives that deal speculatively with money, processes of financialization and economy of anxiety. In consideration of capitalism’s most prominent source of crises – fictitious capital – au JUS is working on a 2-month-long trajectory that will look at MONEY as a collectively agreed fiction.

In terms of the history of ideas, art and money have a complex relationship. Speculative Economies would like to address this systemic complexity centering on speculation as a modus operandi found both in art and in finance. By looking at the entanglement of contemporary art and contemporary capital, one being the creative, open-ended, imaginary practice we know, the other a closed, self-reproducing, masturbatory and self-expanding, risk-oriented logic, we observe that both were merged ideologically in different concepts over time (creative industries, art as asset class, etc…). To explore the terminology of speculation in this complex, we propose to both enact and theorize by using games, participatory performance formats and LARP (Live-Action-Role-Play) as medium.

In this context, au JUS will host two artists and one artistic duo in residence, accompanied by a series of games, discussions, performances, somatic exercises, collective readings as well as a pirate cinema & library. Artists as well as economists will be conjointly invited to ponder on revolutionary politics, radical economies and post-capitalist scenarios. A.o. with Wassim Alsindi (0xSalon), Max Haiven (Radical Imagination), Common Wallet, Kitoki (House of Juice), Joana B Polge, Céline Estenne and many more.

This is not a scam. Come join this family therapy session.

Speculative Economies is made possible with kind support of the VGC-kunstensubsidie.

Sunday, Apr 13th, 4-8 pm
Vernissage: Wassim Alsindi in Residence

Meme Economies with Wassim Alsindi

The Money Game with Maru & Nick

Pirate Library Activation with au JUS & Wassim Alsindi

Thursday, Apr 17th, 5 pm
House of Juice
by kitoki.io / Role-Play-Workshop with Stef Meul

Thursday, Apr 24th, 6:30pm
From Feminist Finance Zine to Decentralized Currencies
Conversation with Inte Gloerich

Monday, Apr 28th 6:30 pm with Max Haiven und Wassim Alsindi
The Player and the Played: How Financialization Incubated 21st century Fascism Work presentation
8 pm:
Billionaires and Guillotines
Game session with Max Haiven

Tuesday, Apr 29th 6 pm:
Game-Making-Workshop by Max Haiven
8-9:30 pm:
FAU0X SALON play session by Wassim Alsindi

SAVE THE DATE:

May 1st-15th: Kaitlyn D. Hamilton (TUO TUO) and Vishnu Vardhani Rajan in residence
May 18th: Common Wallet workshop
May 27th: I asked my rich friend to give me money and you can do it too by Céline＆Joana
May 16th-30th: Asya Volodina in residence

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