House of Juice
by kitoki.io / with Stef Meul
Thursday, Apr 17th at 5pm
at gallery or join The House of Juice workshop online here.
followed by a dinner. rsvp here (hybrid event)
A role play workshop series to collectively test a solidarity economy for the site-specific situation and ecosystem that we would like to build.
The House of Juice workshop dives into the actions and flow features of Kitoki, a project whose name signifies "beauty," "difference," and "time". The House of Juice sessions explore Kitoki's core principles: fostering a knowledge economy through skill-sharing, promoting gender equality via an open-access video dance festival, striving for decent work and fair compensation, and aiming to reduce inequality through monetary design.
Participants will engage with the concept of embedded redistribution within transactions, a radical approach to mitigating economic disparities amongst artists on the platform.
This workshop offers a chance to grapple with these ambitious ideas, to understand the challenges of the "freeloader" and "greed" problems, and to consider the potential of decentralized technologies to foster a more balanced artistic landscape.
The House of Juice unfolds through a discursive play. In 2045 AD, societal fault lines have deepened, and populist discourse echoes through the digital ether. Inspired by "Phantoms of the Populi" participants enter into a game dialectic of class division. Through active role-playing, we'll embody four distinct societal groups – the funded elite (FP), the aspiring wannabes (WB), the detached decadents (DID), and the marginalized precarious working poor (PWP).
Drawing on linguistic identity algorithms unique to each group, we'll explore the implicit binds and communication styles that reinforce these divisions. How does language shape identity and perpetuate societal structures? Can we, by stepping into these roles, gain a deeper understanding of the seductive power of populist narratives and the underlying anxieties they exploit? This workshop is not about finding solutions, but about experiencing the dynamics firsthand, testing ideological limitations and exploring which actions can be supported from within the Sustainable Development Goals.