We received a two-year fellowship at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) from October 2023-25. You may find out more about our proposed project on the UdK website.
We will present a talk at New York University titled “Working Conditions.” The event is open to the public.
Einstein Auditorium, NYU Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003
We’ve been invited to present at Pratt’s DDA Guest Lecture Series this Spring. The event is open to the public, for more information and to register:
https://www.pratt.edu/events/dda-guest-lecture-series-spring-2024-joao-enxuto-erica-love/
DDA Lecture Room 4E-3 Myrtle Hall, 4th floor
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
For Spike #77 – Field Guide to AI, we discussed “AI’s weirder implications for the labor of art-making” with Vladan Joler & Sebastian Schmieg, moderated by Christian Kobald
We are grateful to have received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship for 2023!
That’s New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
Please join for the first public gathering of Weird Economies in Lisbon, Portugal. Weird Economies Portfolio will be a program of talks, screenings, and conversations by its organizers, board of advisors and associates. All are welcome.
The event is organized in partnership with Carpintarias de São Lázaro Cultural Center in Lisbon.
The inaugural gathering will feature select contributions from stakeholders and Lisbon-based projects including Bassam El Baroni, Erik Bordeleau, Vienne Chan, Luiza Crosman, Halle Frost, Bahar Noorizadeh, Duda Pedreira, Margarida Mendes, Pedro Gomes of AAVP - Associação de Artistas Visuais em Portugal, and Sara Gaspar of Climáximo.
We will be conducting a seminar titled Silicon Valley Dreams and Hallucinating Machines at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We will be participating in "Chat GPT, Language & the Future of Thinking & Writing" hosted by ESAP, Porto Lisbon & The New Center
On June, 2nd, 3PM, at ESAP, it will take place (we will be remote). Please fill out the form to attend (10am-noon EST)
ChatGPT and other developments in Large Language Models have taken the world by storm. Their profound and yet unformulated implications for thinking, reasoning and writing have sparked crucial debates on the transformation of human intellect and communication in our age. This roundtable explores the complex relationship between ChatGPT's emergence and the changes already underway in thinking and writing practices.
This roundtable brings together: Elie Ayache, Joao Enxuto & Erica Love, AA Cavia, Joao Oliveira Duarte, Anna Longo, Rafael Moscardi, Reza Negarestani, Mohammad Salemy, and is Moderated by Romulo Moraes.
Our essay “Sketches from a Secession” will be published by MIT Press for the Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art series Speculation edited by Marina Vishmidt.
Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and finance. …In this context, the artist is seen as a speculative subject and a paragon of creativity—the diametrical opposite of the bean-counter obsessed with balance sheets and value added. However, once social reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right—risky, algorithmic, and overhauled by networked markets—what becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance but art and life?
We will have a conversation with fellow artists Agnieszka Kurant and Joshua Citarella to consider the impact of today’s fast-changing technological reality, moderated by Makayla Bailey Development Director of Rhizome.
We are participating in the project On Abstraction which includes an international colloquium, a bilingual publication and four exhibitions: (I) Paris (II) Porto (III) Barcelona (IV) Porto.
Curated by Eduarda Neves.
The New Centre for Research & Practice, in collaboration with Richmond Art Gallery, will host the Incredible Machines 2022: Model Is the Message on October 1 and 2, 2022. The event will be followed up with the publication of a volume on the topic by the conference guests.
We will be conducting a seminar at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We will be presenting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The symposium is titled, Institutional Critique at the Post-Digital Turn: Museums and Databases.
Infrahauntologies Part II
Opening: January 27, 6pm
January 28-March 12, 2022
La Box Galerie de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges
BP 297, 9 rue Édouard-Branly, Bourges Tél : 02 48 24 78 70 la.box@ensa-bourges.fr
https://www.ensa-bourges.fr/index.php/en/14-box
Artists: Bahar Noorizadeh / João Enxuto and Erica Love / Vermeir & Heiremans
Curated by Bassam El Baroni
Infrahauntologies is an international group exhibition foregrounding recent practices that engage with questions of infrastructure. A key question explored by several works in Infrahauntologies is: How can financialization and computation be leveraged to generate fairer conditions and to reopen foreclosed possibilities?
On Wednesday, December 22, Renzo Martens’ White Cube (2020) was available for viewing on the Weird Economies platform and coincided with this recent text and interview by us.
Our essay “The Currency of Contemporary Art” will be published by Sternberg Press for the book Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art edited by Bassam El Baroni. From questions around space settlements to the possibility of repurposing blockchain infrastructures and financial instruments for redistributive purposes, and from the diagrammatic potential of infrastructural thinking in artistic practices to scenario planning and economic strategizing, this collection of essays brings together critical analysis from a broad group of contributors engaged in the revisioning of our infrastructural futures. Their interrogations span local and global relationalities, historical and political legacies, as well as future-oriented infrastructural hypotheses.
Our work will be exhibited at the Palazzo De Gualtieris, Castrignano de’ Greci (Lecce), Italy for Home Sweet Home curated by Paolo Mele, Claudio Zecchi, Alessandra Pioselli, Davide Quadrio.
"Lastation is dead! Long live Lastation" was the last shout with which we left the house that hosted us for six years from 2014 to 2020. Lastation, literally the house of the former stationmaster of the last still functional train station in the southeast of Italy, has always been a place of hospitality, debate, research, and cultural production for artists, curators, researchers, or simple enthusiasts who have come to visit us over time. Home Sweet Home is an agora, a place where the projects and artists presented become interwoven, a place of dialectic and discoveries. The exhibition, which will see the participation of national and international artists and projects, will open on July 22nd, 2021 and will not have a scheduled closing date. It will occupy the entire space of Palazzo De Gualieris from the exhibition rooms to the offices, from the studios of the artists in residence to the bar via the library and the garden.
ESAP Seminar: Rerouting Capital
July 14 - 16, 2021
Through a critical analysis of the art world’s global infrastructure, this seminar looks at artistic methodologies which operationalize financial speculation to creatively redirect flows of capital. We will focus on long-term (affective and research-based) commitments by artists and communities who have recognized that undoing structural violence and systemic inequality requires risking together to build meaningful futures.
Exhibition walkthrough with Bassam El Baroni and Vermeir & Heiremans: July 7, 5pm
Opening: July 7, 7pm
Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
Germany
Artists: A.S.T., Bassam El Baroni and Constantinos Miltiades (in collaboration with Georgios Cherouvim and Gerriet K. Sharma), João Enxuto and Erica Love, John Gerrard, Assem Hendawi, Bahar Noorizadeh, Vermeir & Heiremans
Curated by Bassam El Baroni
Infrahauntologies is an international group exhibition foregrounding recent practices that engage with questions of infrastructure. A key question explored by several works in Infrahauntologies is: How can financialization and computation be leveraged to generate fairer conditions and to reopen foreclosed possibilities?
Separate from Infrahauntologies, the Edith-Russ-Haus announces the fall 2021 release of Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, edited by Bassam El Baroni and published by Sternberg Press and Edith-Russ- Haus. The publication brings together critical analysis from a broad group of contributors engaged in the revisioning of our infrastructural futures. It features eighteen new texts, including essays by Bahar Noorizadeh, Vermeir & Heiremans, and João Enxuto and Erica Love.
We will be conducting a seminar at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We excited to announce that we are Core Members and Stakeholders in the new online platform Weird Economies. It was launched today, June 12th.
Our first set of contributions will include a film screening of Kink Retrograde accompanying text by Bassam Saad, a digital platform and essay on Experiments with Autonomous Ecosystems by terra0, and introducing the project and accompanying essay titled The Sphere as Speculative Gesture by Erik Bordeleau, and an interview with Evgeny Morozov by Chiara di Lione and Bahar Noorizadeh.
Please visit Weird Economies and share the link with your communities. Further updates on contributions, events and open calls will be announced on the Instagram account @weird_economies and on twitter @weirdEconomies, so please follow us!
We are in residence again at AiR 351 in Cascais, Portugal for June, July, and August, 2021
Commissioned for 2038 – The New Serenity at the German Pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — Venice Biennale.
Curated by Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Christopher Roth the exhibition is May 22 to November 21, 2021.
2038 – The New Serenity was released March 20, and is available online.
The reader is based on and expands on ideas of 2038, the German Pavilion of the 17th Architecture Biennale di Venezia.
The compendium includes contributions by Audrey Tang, Christopher Roth, Erica Love and João Enxuto, Erik Bordeleau, Evgeny Morozov, Jacob Goldman, Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks, Joanna Pope, Leif Randt, Ludwig Engel, Lukas Kubina, Mark Wigley, Meghan Rolvien, Michael Stoeppler, Mitchell Joachim, Olaf Grawert, Suhail Malik, Tatiana Bilbao, terra0 and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Thanks to support from FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation) we are in residence in beautiful Cascais, Portugal about a 30 minute drive from Lisbon.
“AiR 351´s activities started in late 2016, with the artist-in-residence Gary Hill. Since then the organization has hosted international artists and curators. Its studio based professional development program anchors itself on the thriving local art scene and stretches over a national and international network.”
We will be conducting a seminar the week of June 22 at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We just wrote Sketches from a Secession. It’s our take on the Covid-19 moment and the future for artists working in America.
https://fallsemester.org/2020-1/2020/4/27/joao-enxuto-erica-love
Common Seminar: João Enxuto and Erica Love
Monday 9 December, 9am-12pm
Room: Zickerman
If you are in Stockholm please come by for our talk at Konstfack “the art university where everyone from dreamers and reformers to activists and utopists have gone since 1844.”
