JOÃO ENXUTO & ERICA LOVE

Exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien
2025-09-25 00:00 - 2025-10-11 23:59 UTC
Final exhibition for the 2023 – 2025 Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Fellowship

Graduale 25: FLOW STATES

Seminar at the New Centre
2025-07-12 00:00 - 2025-08-23 23:59
Our seminar titled, Prototyping Para-Institutional, will address para-institutions which emerged in the cultural field in response to major events such as the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, indicating a demand for knowledge production that engaged with critical socio-political junctures. These responses were often informal, fugitive, and fleeting. While structurelessness was a feature, sustaining these efforts over time proved challenging. If sustainability was achieved, it was through partnerships with established institutions, private patronage, or through public funding. This workshop will begin by defining para-institutions: what is the institutionality that it operates beside, beyond, or against? We will look at the historical forces that once bound cultural institutions to an international order—a system that’s now unraveling through multipolarity and an ascendant right-wing. The faltering of once durable cultural institutions has been met by a multitude assembling and dispersing across online platforms. This short history will be reviewed and notable examples highlighted. Guests include Jürgen Bock, Director of the Maumaus Independent Study Programme (Lisbon), and Renzo Martens with members of the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC).

Maumaus, Lisbon
2025-05-06 00:00 - 2025-05-08 23:59, 2024-06-14 00:00 - 2024-06-18 23:59, 2022-06-14 00:00 - 2022-06-20 23:59, 2021-06-30 10:00 - 2021-07-02 17:00
We will be conducting a seminar at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.

Exhibition at D21, Leipzig
2024-11-07 00:00 - 2025-03-09 23:59
Artists  Tekla Aslanishvili, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Mia Heidler, Sonja Hornung & Daniele Tognozzi, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Sybille Neumeyer, Oliver Ressler, Stefania Smolkina, open-weather / Soph Dyer & Sasha Engelmann

Curated by  Sybille Neumeyer

”Teleconnections“ is a term used in climate science to describe causal relationships between far distant climate zones. Beyond a merely meteorological perspective, the exhibition puts into discourse the correlations between climates, media and politics.

Political, cultural and social atmospheres are shaped by the influence of the media, and technologically produced climate narratives (re)produce power relations. In addition to topics such as greenwashing, media as catalysts of CO2 cycles, colonial data structures, activism and energy infrastructures, the multimedia contributions of the international artists deal with eco-feminist, speculative and poetic approaches.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a discourse programme of workshops, lectures and guided tours.

Our film exhibited at Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
2024-06-29 00:00 - 2024-08-01 23:59
We are happy to exhibit A Film for People (The Ashpit) at Pivô in São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Luiza Crossman, Financescapes will focus on the economics of atmospheric manipulation, on local and global scales.

https://pivo.org.br/

Lecture at New York University
2024-04-20 17:00 - 18:30
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

Lecture at Pratt Institute
2024-02-14 12:45 - 14:00
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

Participated in a roundtable on art labor and AI
2023-11-01 00:00 - 2023-12-01 23:59
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

Fellowship at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
2023-10-01 00:00 - 2025-09-30 23:59
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.

Awarded NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
2023-09-20 00:00 - 2023-12-31 23:59
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)

Weird Economies in Lisbon
2023-07-10 18:30 - 20:30
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.

Maumaus, Lisbon
2023-06-20 00:00 - 2023-06-22 23:59
We will be conducting a seminar titled Silicon Valley Dreams and Hallucinating Machines at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.

"Chat GPT, Language & the Future of Thinking & Writing"
2023-06-02 10:00 - 12:00
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.

Essay in Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art series on Speculation
2023-03-28 00:00 - 2023-05-27 23:59
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?

Conversations Art Basel Miami
2022-12-02 11:00 - 12:00
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.

Work on view in Paris, Porto, and Barcelona
2022-10-01 15:00 - 2023-03-09 19:00
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.

Participation in Incredible Machines 2022
2022-10-01 09:00 - 2022-10-02 17:00
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.

http://thenewcentre.org/incredible-machines-2022/

Presenting at University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2022-05-12 09:00 - 2022-05-13 20:00
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.

Essay in Contemporânea, Portugal
2022-01-31 06:30 - 2022-02-28 19:30
“Photographs of a Master Plan,” in Contemporânea

Infrahauntologies at La Box
2022-01-27 18:00 - 2022-03-12 20:00
Infrahauntologies Part II

Opening: January 27, 6pm

January 28-March 12, 2022

La Box Galerie de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de BourgesBP 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?

Inside the White Cube: Text and Interview with Renzo Martens
2021-12-22 06:30 - 2022-02-22 19:30
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.

https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/white-cube

Essay "The Currency of Contemporary Art" published by Sternberg Press
2021-11-15 17:00 - 2021-12-31 18:00
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.

Exhibition at the Palazzo De Gualtieris, Castrignano de’ Greci, Italy
2021-10-16 18:00 - 2021-12-18 18:00
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- Escola Superior Artística do Porto
2021-07-14 09:00 - 2021-07-16 17:00
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.

http://www.esap.pt/

Infrahauntologies at Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
2021-07-07 17:00 - 2021-10-03 18:00
Exhibition walkthrough with Bassam El Baroni and Vermeir & Heiremans: July 7, 5pm

Opening: July 7, 7pm

Edith-Russ-Haus for Media ArtKatharinenstraße 23D-26121 OldenburgGermany

www.edith-russ-haus.de

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.

Launch of the online platform Weird Economies
2021-06-12 15:30 - 16:30
We excited to announce that we are Core Members and Stakeholders in the new online platform Weird Economies. It was launched today, June 12th.

https://weirdeconomies.com

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!

In residence at Air351 Cascais, Portugal
2021-06-04 07:30 - 17:00
We are in residence again at AiR 351 in Cascais, Portugal for June, July, and August, 2021
