4. Larping Into The Future Of Blockchain

White Papers On Dissent - The Podcast

In the last episode, we talked about how blockchain reframes the notion of value. And we focused on world-building -methodologies to develop social uses of blockchain.

We continue this inquiry and return to the role of artists in this development with a conversation and audio larp by Singapore based artist Shawn Chua.

The curator of White Papers on Dissent is Barbara Cueto. She is interested in the intersection of activism, new technologies and contemporary art. She is fascinated with how decentralised technologies are prompting new social constructions that compose new political and economic infrastructures, and how artists rehearse these imaginaries in their practices, giving us a glimpse in a world post-crisis.

She is the digital curator of C/O Berlin and a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She has convened and curated projects internationally at institutions like MMOMA Moscow for the 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art in Russia, Asian Culture Centre in Gwangju and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul in South Korea, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Bétonsalon in Paris, Marres in Maastricht, Impakt Festival in Utrecht, and de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, all in the Netherlands. And has been resident at Tokyo Wondersite in Japan, Rupert in Lithuania, and Cité des Arts in Paris.

Audio production and sound design by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts

This Episode featured:
Gary Zhexi Zhang
[http://www.zhexi.info/]
Kathrine Gibson
[https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/people/katherine-gibson]
Shawn Chua
[http://www.asiandramaturgs.com/satellite2017/speakers#shawnchua]