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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures and Kino Šiška,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>is proud to announce:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>MoneyLab #8</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Minting a Fair Society</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><a href="https://aksioma.org/moneylab8">https://aksioma.org/moneylab8</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>LIVE STREAMING SERIES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#1D2129;background:white'>Every Monday at 5 pm CET</span><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;font-weight:normal'>11 May<span style='color:#202020'>–2</span>9<span style='color:#202020'> </span>June<span style='color:#202020'> 2020</span></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><br><br><em><b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Critical thinkers, artists, researchers, activists, and geeks in search of other economies and financial discourses for a fair society.</span></b></em><em><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:black'>WITH:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:black'> Anuška Delić, </span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Brett Scott, <span style='color:black'>Cassie Thornton, César Escudero Andaluz, Davor Mišković, Demystification Committee, Denis 'Jaromil' Roio, DOMA.CITY (Maksym Rokmaniko), Evgeny Morozov, Forms of Ownership (Vienne Chan), Geert Lovink, Inte Gloerich</span>, <span style='color:black'>Jaya Klara Brekke, Klemen Ploštajner, Lenart Kučić, Maddalena Fragnito, Martín Nadal, Martin Zeilinger, Max Haiven, Pirate Care (Marcell Mars, Valeria Graziano</span>, Tomislav Medak<span style='color:black'>), RYBN.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>Initially planned as an IRL conference, <strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>MoneyLab #8</span></strong> has been reformulated as a series of weekly streaming events to be held every Monday at 5 PM CET. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>We start on May 11 with <em><b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Critical Finance Strategies, Three Months into the Corona Crisis</span></b></em>, a conversation between <strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Brett Scott</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Geert Lovink</span></strong>.</span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Follow the programme here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>FB event > <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/">https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Telegram > <a href="https://t.me/aksiomaorg">https://t.me/aksiomaorg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>All along, these have been dark times for the economy, as offshore finance wreaks havoc in the very fabric of cities and communities, and crypto-companies navigate the world in search of their own tax havens. Information leaks from financial paradises have made it clear that the wealthy, influential, and well-connected will still escape taxation. These are the same people turning places like Malta and the Bahamas into luxury apartment zones. At the same time, well-documented Dutch fiscal loopholes cost the world approximately 22 billion euros in lost taxes each year. Corporations like Shell tempt governments with scraps of their ill-gained revenues in exchange for legal residence in anonymous letterboxes. Global business and crypto-speculation have debased national regulations to the competitive logics of an international tax marketplace, and local economies and communities struggle to hold up against privatisation and the mass transformation of jobs to a precarious freelance existence in the gig economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Weeks into the corona crisis, it is too early to say which aspects of the global financial system have been thrown into the dustbin of history. Pivotal nation-states are now exploring digital currencies as one tool for post-pandemic stimulus (or austerity). How do the earlier proposals for Universal Basic Income relate to the sudden appearance of helicopter money in some countries? Are the Keynesian money proposals to prop up the Western economies an indication of the end of the neoliberal hegemony? Is the ban on cash during the corona crisis an indication of the arrival of the cashless society?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>It is a grim scenario, but perhaps not all is lost. The economy is not – and never was – merely in the hands of faceless corporations and cryptocurrency speculators. <em><b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020;font-style:normal'><a href="https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/" target="_blank"><i><span style='color:#007C89'>MoneyLab</span></i></a></span></b></em> explores the imaginaries of artists, researchers, activists, and geeks in search of other possible economies and urgently interrogates a different financial discourse. It has always asked: can we use technology critically to support alternative values of cooperation and “commoning” in a world that is dominated by individualism and competition?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>MoneyLab #8</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>, the first-ever in a post-socialist country and the first-ever virtual edition, features examples far from the mainstream media spotlight. It zooms in on the effects of offshore finance and explores counter-experiments in the realms of housing, care work, and blockchain technology. In the fringes, something interesting is happening: blockchain is no longer just another tool for capitalist growth obsessions, and people are realising radical visions for fairly-waged care work, redistributed wealth, equitable social relations, and strong grassroots communities. In our world of vanishing cash, corner-cutting multinationals, and weakened social support structures, can community currencies or self-organised care networks strengthen neighbourhoods? What would fair and social housing look like if it was turned into the cornerstone of the economy? Who is building local systems that can stand up against the financialisation of housing in the global platform economy?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>MoneyLab #8</span></i><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'> sheds light on radical and alternative strategies for self-organisation and pushes on towards new and collective futures situated in resilient local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>Organised and produced by:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'> Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>For the series: </span></strong><a href="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#007C89'>Tactics & Practice</span></em></a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>In the frame of: </span></strong><a href="https://kons-platforma.org/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#007C89'>konS</span></em></a> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>In collaboration with: </span></strong><a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture</span></a> and <a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Institute of Network Cultures</span></a> / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>In partnership with:</span></strong><a href="https://rijeka2020.eu/en/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'> Rijeka ECoC 2020</span></a> and <a href="https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Interface Cultures Department</span></a> / Kunstuniversität Linz<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>Media partners:</span></strong> Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio Študent</span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>Supported by: </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>The project <em><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'>konS</span></em> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. </span><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;color:#202020'>The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Project Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Colibri",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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