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Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #9: Gizem Üstüner’s Low-Budget ProjectsGizem Üstüner is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, whose work is a direct confrontation with the realities of precarity, migration, and womanhood. In recent years, she’s been traveling to Yogyakarta, Athens, Istanbul, and back to Amsterdam for the long-term ‘Low-Budget Projects’. Wherever she goes, Gizem seeks to build solidarity through one-on-one exchanges with peers navigating struggles similar to hers. Over coffees, cigarettes, nights out, or moments of protest, she listens, connects, and shares in the everyday tactics and resistance strategies that cultural practitioners develop in response to the cultural, economic, and political infrastructures they inhabit. In this...
2025-11-0446 min
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #8: Vermeir & Heiremans between Speculative Fiction and Operational RealismVermeir & Heiremans started their collaborative artistic practice, when they defined their apartment in Brussels as an artwork and created the Art House Index in 2006. In the following decades, they developed a deep artistic research practice focusing on the interplay between art, speculation, finance, and real estate. Ronny Heiremans and Katleen Vermeir have also successfully worked on Belgian art policy development and co-founded the artistic research platform Jubilee. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, from financialisation for the public good to automated art dividends, real estate speculation, bottom-up policymaking, new ways of mutualization, and the lure of...
2025-11-041h 15
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #7: Kate Rich and Radical AdministrationFor this episode I had a conversation with artist, trader, and researcher Kate Rich. We discussed ‘feral trade’, an international grocery business set up by Kate, for which her traveling (art world) friends and acquaintances act as couriers. We then talked about ‘radmin’, a long-term effort to radicalize the administrative work that’s always there, but usually remains in the background, even in social art practices.Links & ReferencesFeral Trade website: https://feraltrade.org 2013 interview about Feral Trade: https://www.wired.com/2013/07/whats-new-with-kate-rich-and-feral-trade Katherine Gibson and Kate Rich, ‘Feral Trade: Taking back Markets...
2025-11-0435 min
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #6: Inte Gloerich and Decentralised Autonomous OrganisationsInte Gloerich is a critical media and technology researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures. She is one of the core people behind the research community MoneyLab and recently finished her PhD on feminist blockchain imaginaries. In this episode of Art in Permacrisis, we discuss blockchain beyond the hype, and beyond the wish to get rich fast. How can blockchain be a tool for radical imagination and decentralised autonomous organising in the arts? We discuss concepts and dilemmas, and briefly revisit what’s left of the NFT boom, but we mainly dive into the practices of contemporary DAOs, from Da...
2025-11-041h 37
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis Bonus Episode: The Budapest Conference Special (w/ Constant Dullaart)We kick off a new season of Art in Permacrisis with a short special episode. From the 25th until the 26th of October, we were in Budapest for a conference of media artists and researchers called MetaForumX: PermaCrises. One of the contributions to MetaForum was a podcast created by media artist Constant Dullaart. It’s a fresh take on the notion of permacrisis, the development of AI, and the role of art.In the coming months, we will be publishing a bunch of exciting new episodes. There is one about the concept and practice radical administration, one ab...
2025-11-0423 min
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis EconomyThis is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.At the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the...
2025-11-041h 36
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Art WorkThis is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.In this episode, we talk to Katja Praznik...
2025-11-041h 37
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Universal Basic IncomeThis is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.For this episode, we talk to Emanuele Braga...
2025-11-041h 24
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #10: Justin O’Connor and Culture Is Not an IndustryIn the first episode of a new season, we sit down with Justin O’Connor. A global policy expert, author, and a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia. In this episode, we talk about his book Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good. Justin explains how theoretically poor the concept of the ‘creative industry’ actually is, and how it has messed up cultural policy in many countries. We then talk about an alternative policy vision: art and culture for the common good, anchored in the foundational economy.LINKS...
2025-11-041h 23
Art in PermacrisisArt in Permacrisis #1: Kuba Szreder and the ProjectariatThis is the first episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.For this episode, we are welcoming Kuba Szreder. Kuba is a lecturer in art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a freelance curator. He co-founded the Free/Slow University of Warsaw and the Office for Postartistic Practices. The main topic of our conversation is Kuba’s book ABC of the Projectariat: Living an...
2025-11-041h 28
Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #6: Inte Gloerich and Decentralised Autonomous OrganisationsInte Gloerich is a critical media and technology researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures. She is one of the core people behind the research community MoneyLab and recently finished her PhD on feminist blockchain imaginaries. In this episode of Art in Permacrisis, we discuss blockchain beyond the hype, and beyond the wish to get rich fast. How can blockchain be a tool for radical imagination and decentralised autonomous organising in the arts? We discuss concepts and dilemmas, and briefly revisit what's left of the NFT boom, but we mainly dive into the practices of contemporary DAOs, from Dayra, to...
2024-12-201h 37Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #5: The Budapest Conference Special (w/ Constant Dullaart)We kick off a new season of Art in Permacrisis with a special episode. In October, we were in Budapest for a conference of media artists and researchers called MetaForumX: PermaCrises. One of the contributions to MetaForum was a podcast created by media artist Constant Dullaart. It's a fresh take on the notion of permacrisis, the development of AI, and the role of art.
Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice...
2024-11-2723 min
Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis EconomyThis is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
In this episode, we talk to Yazan Khalili. Yazan is an...
2024-07-161h 36Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Feminist Art UnionsThis is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
In this episode, we talk to Katja Praznik. Katja is an...
2024-07-011h 37Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBIThis is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
For this episode, we talk to Emanuele Braga. Emanuele is an...
2024-06-261h 24Institute of Network CulturesArt in Permacrisis #1: Kuba Szreder and the ProjectariatThis is the first episode in the mini-series Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
For this episode, we are welcoming Kuba Szreder. Kuba...
2024-05-141h 28
Sensing Art, Training the BodyTraining the Senses #04 - Performing Work (EN)A lawyer who is defending her client, and an instrument maker who is tuning a violin will most probably refer to their activity as work, while the musician playing the same violin or a belly dancer taking the stage will probably refer to their work as performance. Most of us would not find it hard to see the performance of the latter two as work, but we might not have considered that most of the work we all do is in some way a performance, and that we tend to call upon different versions of ourselves to perform that...
2023-05-1648 min
HOW TO BIODESIGN AUDIO RECAPHow To Biodesign #15: Living coatings for biomaterialsBiomaterials like mycelium and kombucha leather are oftentimes not water resistant and therefore need a coating. Biopolymers like beeswax or natural rubbers provide solutions, yet also fungi can give an interesting coating for biomaterials. How can designers apply these innovations, and how do you choose or develop a coating? Listen back to the stories of: Stephanie Rensink (Microbiologist and researcher at Xylotrade BV) & Ward Groutars (Designer and researcher from TU Delft, the Caradt institute and Hoekmine b.v.)
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2021-07-2659 min