Duo Exhibition
»THE MARKET«
Mark Curran
Mark Curran’s project THE MARKET (2010-2019) is a critical examination of the state of global markets, their mechanisms of action and the significance of financial capital – of the forces that underlie the structure of our globalised system. It illustrates how the continued hegemony of unleashed finance, combined with technological innovation and the elimination of human reason, empathy and ethics, perpetuates the unacceptable distribution of power in favor of a super-rich minority in our globalised capitalist system.
The panel discussion (see framework program below) will open the view to the possibility of an alternative, post-capitalist, sustainable, inclusive and just future.
The ethnographic multimedia installation includes photographs, video, an algorithmically generated soundscape, artefactual material, quotes from traders’ chat rooms, 3D data visualisations and transcripts of statements by protagonists of the financial markets.
Mark Curran is an activist researcher and educator based in Berlin and Dublin. Incorporating multi-media installation, centrally informed by visual anthropology, he has undertaken a cycle of long-term projects critically addressing the predatory impact of migrations of global capital. Includes SOUTHERN CROSS (1999-2002), The Breathing Factory (2002-2006) and Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN (2003-2009). These have been extensively exhibited and published alongside presentations at conferences and symposia.
Framework program
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Saturday, Oct 22, 2022, 3 pm
Panel discussion
»Radical Reimagined Futures«
with Max Haiven, Leigh Claire La Berge & Mark Curran. Held in English.
Details
Saturday, Nov 12, 2022, 2 – 6 pm
Soft Finissage
Bethlehem, Trader (negotiation 1.5 years), Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 2012 © Mark Curran, from the series »THE MARKET«
Financial Surrealism (World Trade Center II), Zuidas Global Finacial District, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015 © Mark Curran, from the series »THE MARKET«
Matthew, Banker (negotiation 2 years), Canary Wharf, London, England, March 2013 © Mark Curran, from the series »THE MARKET«
Systemic Risk (Shadow Banking II), Investment Bank, Zuidas Financial District, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2016 © Mark Curran, from the series »THE MARKET«
The exhibition and the panel discussion are kindly supported by the Bezirksamt Lichtenberg of Berlin/Bezirkskulturfonds.
Simultaneous exhibition at Villa Heike:
Jens Lüstraeten »Sunny Side Up«
Oct 19 — Nov 12, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 15, 4 – 8 pm
+ Framework program: please see above
Freienwalder Straße 17 · 13055 Berlin
[District: Alt-Hohenschönhausen | Borough: Lichtenberg]
Opening hours: Wed – Sun 2 – 6 pm, and by appointment
Admission free
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