Joint Venture is an experimental art project exploring economic value, productivity and financialisation as a social force. It is a collaboration between Cécile Bally and Akseli Aittomäki, encompassing two months of experimental work together. We start from asking what is value, how economic value is produced, and what are the social and political conditions in and through which value is produced. We use several different approaches towards the questions, working parallel with formal economic thinking, organisation of concrete conditions, as well as with experience and subjectivity shaped by the economy or the economic. ‘Financialisation’, the power of the logic of financing over society, as well as accounting are central terms in our study. Joint Venture presents talks, performing scores, work tasks or video projections assembled into something between an ‘experiment’ and a ‘conference’ on artistic expeditions into finance, accounting and critical theory.
Performer: Cécile Bally, Akseli Aittomäki
In cooperation with tanzfabrik Berlin.