The Art and Activism of Money with Max Haiven

Sunday May 24th
Doors and lunch at 1pm; Talk starts 2pm.

Many artists have been tempted to experiment with money as a way to critique capitalism and experiment with alternatives. Some integrate coins, bills and promises into their paintings and sculptures. Others invent thought-provoking new currencies and thriving alternative economies.

Perhaps they do so because money represents the cutting edge of economic power, and most artists are made poor by this system. Or maybe it's because both art and money are ways we represent and imagine the world.

In this talk, Max Haiven will contextualise Dan and Hilary's work as part of a legacy of interventionist art that plays with money for the radical imagination. Drawing on his 2018 book "Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization", he'll ask: What can activists and organisers learn from these daring experiments?

After Max's talk we'll have a short break for tea and coffee followed by discussion. Our free Money Making Workshop will then start at 4.30pm.

Tickets include lunch before the talk at 1pm and tea or coffee during the break. Please pay what you can.

This is one of the supporting events for Everything Must Go, artist/activist couple HIlary Powell and Dan Edelystyn's take-over of our ground floor space.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 1pm for lunch. Talk starts at 2pm, followed by discussion until 3.45pm.

Tickets are pay what you can: £10, £15, £20 or £30.

Please note that most of our events take place in our basement space and we do not have a lift so our venue is not fully accessible. Please get in touch if you have accessibility issues via events@kairos.london.

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