Presenting a Lecture by Fran Ilich
Author(s)
Fran Ilich
From: Trainings for the Not-Yet, an exhibition as a series of trainings for a future of being together otherwise, convened with a multitude of collaborators by Jeanne van Heeswijk and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2019–2020)
In this lecture, held in the context of BAK’s recent multi-part program, Trainings For the Not-Yet (14 September 2019–12 January 2020), the artist introduces fascinating examples of experimental solidarity economies born through his collaborative work, and delves into their potential as practices against dispossession and as generators of radical uses of value. Describing how the work first was generated in response to the colonial implications of capitalist economic systems in Mexico, Ilich then outlines the birth and development of several of his projects, from Telenovelas as a medium for counter histories, to the Spacebank, a new kind of bank based on trust and collective labor, to the Diego de la Vega Coffee Coop, a collaboration between Zapatista communities in Mexico and service industry laborers in New York City.
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From: Trainings for the Not-Yet, an exhibition as a series of trainings for a future of being together otherwise, convened with a multitude of collaborators by Jeanne van Heeswijk and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2019–2020)
From: New World Academy, an alternative learning platform for art and politics established by Jonas Staal and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (2013–2016).
From FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989, Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh, eds. (Utrecht: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 379-390.
