A hackathon dinner with Black Swan, a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralised appraoches to the traditional art world templates for art making.
- What is the value, or values, of art? And how is that value constructed by different ontologies of art?
- Can we compare the forms of value generated by different ontologies of art, if so how?
- How do different processes and practices construct different forms of value within Art? what are the material, technical, aesthetic, knowledge-based conditions that constitute Art's values in different milieus?
- What makes something sustainable and socially relevant?
- Can new systems of collective working methods equate to a sustainable economic model through the lens of Art?
Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralized approaches to the traditional art world templates for art making. For White Papers on Dissent, they will develop a conversational dinner at Van Abbemuseum during Dutch Design Week. The Assets invites local cultural workers and organisations to a role-playing activity reflecting on the forms of artistic value created by their work. The dinner aims to facilitate dialogue about the ontologies of art present in existing practices. The learnings will later inform the development of Black Swan DAO, an open-source tool-kit for artistic collectives.
This translinguistic dinner continues the investigation of White Papers on Dissent about the understanding of value as a non-capitalocentric notion, and the potential of using digital technologies such as blockchain to channel these values into alternative governance mechanisms. In this way, Black Swan helps unravel threads of thinking about value otherwise, as a fluid, diverse and community-oriented practice. To unlearn this concept, the hackathon delves into how creativity and innovation generate new models that foster diverse forms of value and its repercussions transforming social organisations. As a result, this projects expands and continues the research of White Papers on Dissent about the social uses of blockchains, and how this technology can support social structures grounded in alternative configurations of value.
