For this 4th #CultureResetStroud Session we have chosen to focus our online discussion around two films featuring artist’s initiatives which radically play with inventive and alternative models of circular economy. The projects challenge our thinking about the current financial structures and our individualistic attitude around wealth. Claudia Sambo and Holly English will be joining us in the discussion to tell us more about their project.
The Bank Job is a rebel bank based in a former bank in Walthamstow.
“Our Bank Job is a community heist, where we get together to pull a number on the financial system - hacking into the secondary market to buy up and then blow up £1.2m of high interest debt.”
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Through their recent film Potato Money, Claudia Sambo and Holly English playfully address the absurdity of our financial systems right now, and question whether we'd be better off with a potato.
Potato money is a survey of initial research, imagining an alternate future where potatoes function as currency. It looks at how this method might enable a more circular economy and a shift in priorities towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
“ Hope lives eternally in our hearts, we cannot do anything about it, thankfully. As long as there is something inside of us which is the core of our humanity, we are going to maintain hope against all evidence. Because all the evidence is really bleak. But we have no right to be empirical about it. Unlike the weather, which is independent of what we think about it, history is made by people who don’t a damn about predictions”
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, academic, philosopher and politician
The sessions are free to attend. Once you are booked you will be sent a Zoom Invite. Please book here by Monday 16th November noon.
#CultureResetStroud Mondays - Pod Sessions
#CultureResetStroud is organised by SVA and Atelier Stroud. Small groups are invited to meet online to listen to inspirational provocations by international ‘Culture Reset’ arts activists, leaders and thinkers.
Each session will be made of a short film or podcast followed by a discussion in small breakout groups. The session will end by bringing all the participants back together to continue the discussion from a more local perspective.
Each session will last approx. 1.5 hours.
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Katharina Child (Atelier Stroud) and Jo Leahy (SVA) met on a sunny Sunday morning to discuss what Culture Reset is all about and how it connects to the work they are doing, the community of Stroud and international connections such as the upcoming Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin.
This conversation is an introduction to a series of #CultureResetStroud discussion groups which will take place at Atelier Stroud, SVA and online.
What is Culture Reset?
Culture Reset is a UK wide practical rapid response programme to inspire more relevant and impactful cultural organisations and practices. Born out of the devastating impact of Covid-19 and inspired by the urgent need to accelerate change and respond to the experiences of a broader diversity of people, it provided expert support and dynamic stimulus for 192 arts and cultural producers, makers and directors across the UK over the summer of 2020
SVA
and #CultureResetStroud
Jo Leahy ( SVA), one of the participants of Culture Reset, engaged in critical discussions with artists, producers, theatre makers, operational managers, curators, artistic directors to build a body of research and network connections to help to find a way forward in finding some answers.
"Culture Reset and other initiatives like Culture Plan B (set up by David Jubb) have suddenly burst forward as result of the pandemic and the devastating consequences on the arts. The pandemic and Black Lives Matter have exposed the great inequalities in our society and as a result there is an urgent call to arms for a complete reset of the structural and economic systems that the current arts world so obviously relies on."
Atelier Stroud
and #CultureResetStroud
Following on from last years Berliner Zeitgeist and Creative Spaces and Communities spaces, Katharina Child and Uta Baldauf are keen to continue to work with SVA to share and extend these discussions in connection to Culture Reset and the community of Stroud.