CTM 2022: Lockdown Lessons Part IIII – Decentralised Strategies for Art and Activism
The January 2022 event »Radical Friends. Online DAO Summit for Decentralisation of Power and Resources in the Artworld« was one of the central Lockdown Lessons activities. Artists, activists, and academics explored the potential of blockchain technologies for art and civil society. New forms of organisation such as Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) enabled by blockchain technologies can play a significant role for artistic and civil society infrastructures. After a short introduction of the DAOWO Global Initiative (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation With Others) by the moderator Sarah Johanna Theurer, curator at the Haus der Kunst and theorist on techno-social theories, and Mario Schruff, programme curator and initiator at the Goethe-Institut London, the participating artist and activist collective eeefff from Minsk will present their performance »Tactical Forgetting«. In it, computer-assisted exercises address digital memory and shared events that are more likely to be forgotten because of their sensitive content or community safety. The artistic intervention/presentation will be followed by a discussion on »Decentralized Strategies for Art and Activism«, which examines the potentials and pitfalls of decentralised digital infrastructures for art and civil society. Speakers Olexii Kuchanskyi – a Kyiv-based researcher, artist and queer writer whose main interests lie in experimental moving image art, its ecological effects, and critical cultures of nature, Radical friends co-curator Penny Rafferty, Mario Schruff, and Dzina Zhuk and Nicolay Spesivtsev (eeefff), reflect on these topics from the perspectives of their own artistic, curatorial, and activist practices
Recorded live 28 May 2022 for CTM Festival 2022 – Contact
https://www.ctm-festival.de
