Live Art Development Agency and Folkestone Urban Room
This DIY asked how art workers can intervene in the everyday grammar of finance to transfigure/pervert the flow of these languages through mimesis and a trojan strategy of occupation. How can we radically recompose the body’s response-abillty to the materiality of financialisation, using language and humour to expose the gaps and contradictions of finance’s banal and ridiculous propositions.
Economists largely agree that climate change and social justice can only be achieved through equality across the globe, this means new approaches to the economy will absolutely be the key to tackling climate crisis, addressing local poverty and unshackling artists from the neoliberal agendas for art outside the autonomous zones.
The syllabus for the Folkestone Summer School drew on radical research and experimentation that is taking shape all over the world, and based on research that we conduct in our own back gardens and high streets. More and more people are speaking about spaces opening up, collapses within the current paradigm, the Summer School sought to enrich those with the desire to use this moment to creatively redesign the economy. Working together to build the knowledge and skills to speak confidently about the ideas needed to implement a brand new economy.
We welcomed applications from artists engaged in any form of social practice. Artists interested in biopolitics, activism, feminism, legacies of slavery and colonisation. The syllabus will connect economic strategies to the enslavement that underpins them so we will emerge with a fury and ready to institute new ways of working.
The Summer School was an extension of the Marrickville School of Economics; a creative accounting experiment and artist-led curriculum for studying and developing new ways to do economy.

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Urban Room Discussion of what happens after neoliberalism