ART SCIENCE dialogue with Rob Voerman, Stichting Kaikoesie and Xuan Wang | Finance, systems and activism
As part of the public programme for Let’s Work! the VU ART SCIENCE gallery invites artists and researchers to explore the concept of work. A series of ART SCIENCE dialogues aims to distil the reasons and driving forces behind work, how societal changes impact our experience of work and how the workforce could be changed to serve a better society.
In the final ART SCIENCE dialogue of the series artist Rob Voerman, Victor Bottenbly from Foundation Kaikoesie and Xuan Wang discuss what constitutes value and how it is attributed, and how financial systems and activism can bring about positive change. The talk will be moderated by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach.
Labour, finance and exploitation are inextricably linked, within our capitalist society. As globally calls for climate action and decolonialisation grow, how can we effect change from within the financial system?
The ART SCIENCE dialogue “Finance, systems and activism” looks at how small initiatives and using the structures that exist might be the key to changing the wider financial and political landscape.
The event will take place at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery on Thursday, October 17 from 4-6 PM . The talk is open to the public and free of charge.
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Artist Rob Voerman is often inspired by modernist architecture and the utopian ideas about society on which they are based. His work questions the way in which societies function and might function in the future. Often it is possible for the viewer to interact with the works; they can enter it and sleep, work and drink inside the installations.
Foundation Kaikoesie is committed to protecting and preserving the indigenous cultures of Suriname. Victor Bottenbley is a self-taught actor, director, autonomous artist, performer. Identifying as a member of the T’reweyu Kalina society of the Guyana region of Aryada (presently known as South America). As an artist, he aims to forwarding universal Abyalala indigenous ethical values and philosophical principles from conviction they provide a path to a less destructive anthropocene.
Xuan Wang is assistant professor at the department of Finance of the VU Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD (D.Phil) in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School in 2020. His research interests include monetary policy, financial regulations, and bankruptcy. He is a macro lecturer at Tinbergen Institute.
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach is professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of VU Amsterdam. She engages with normative issues which are crucial to modern, pluralistic societies in her work on immigration ethics, cultural pluralism, structural injustice, etc. She seeks to relate her work in this field with her research on the new, burgeoning field of world philosophies. Here, her main focus lies on how the plurality of standpoints driving this discipline of philosophy can be buttressed. In this regard, she also examines the role of world philosophies in developing (societal) narratives which facilitate cross-cultural understanding.