The Sphere is growing experimental ecologies of funding for the arts by blending techniques from circus, alternative economics and recent innovations in the field of web 3.0.
The advent of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is a new chapter in a long and complex history of technologies of record-keeping, archiving practices, and institutionalized trust that goes back to the origin of writing itself. The Sphere is one initiative among many that imagines how these post-capitalist financial and computational infrastructures can support commons-oriented economies with the goal of redistributing the risks and opportunities of making art together.
This session will focus on The Sphere’s blending of performance and web 3.0 technologies for “speculative generosity” in cultures around the arts, involving audiences in supporting the devising creative process.
Together we will explore the radical questions that are at the heart of this work, particularly around how we may be able to integrate interspecies and cross-generational “return on investment” mechanisms in future accounting systems. The session will also share practical learnings from developing The Sphere across the years, and insights from mutually creating digital governance together and funding projects towards commons-oriented purposes, in a harsh economic landscape.
This session will be a conversation with Erik Bordeleau, Lene Vollhardt and Kate Genevieve.