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Radio R22 Tout Monde: Conference Future Climates: Graduating to Numbers, 2017

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How can the use of financial tools lead to emancipation from public subsidies and private donations for small-scale organizations and networks? How can new forms of transparency and redistribution be obtained through the use of financial design? Invited by KADIST, State of Concept in turn invites Future Climates to present its second chapter entitled Graduating to Numbers (or How Grass-Root Organizations Intervene in Financial Affairs), a day of presentations and discussions with Antonia Alampi, Galit Eilat, iLiana Fokianaki, Victoria Ivanova, Giulia Palomba, Vermeir & Heiremans and W.A.G.E. The issue of low wages, exploitation of immaterial labour and self-exploitation, the use of symbolic value as currency and its translations in terms of exclusion in institutions of visual arts is a recurrent debate with little effect on a structural level, in a field that seems to have transformed only slightly in how it operates and reproduces itself. Future Climates was founded in early 2016 by Antonia Alampi and iLiana Fokianaki to address such questions -particularly precarity and inequality of small scale not-for-profit organizations, by understanding how their surplus-value, for the most part produced by voluntary labour may be profited by larger and socio-economically stronger organizations.  In this one-day meeting we present and discuss examples of grass-root organizations, collectives and artworks that are experimenting with the derivatives market so as to become self-sustainable, use block chain technology, while committing to ethical banking, transparency, horizontal forms of decision-making, collectivization and equal distribution of funds. Inspired by the thinking of Arjun Appadurai, Enric Duran, Victoria Ivanova, Common Practice and Andrea Philips among others, we will address the urgent need for a wide-spread financial literacy. Because we are already bearers of financial markets; the question is how do we become makers.

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