[spectre] Exhibition and conference, Wealth of Nations, 6-14 June, Novi Sad

[Kristian Lukic]

Exhibition and conference
Wealth of Nations
6-14 June, 2009
Novi Sad, Serbia


Wealth of Nations is a part of the Cinema City festival and consists of 
an exhibition and a conference. The term ‘Wealth of Nations’ is the 
title of the seminal book by the Scottish economist Adam Smith, in which 
he establishes and defends the basics of Liberal Economic Policy. 
Liberal Economics experienced its peak in the 1990s after the concept of 
Real Socialism had failed and the global free market had been 
established. This economy, however, has entered a period of deep crisis 
in the past few months and it might, for a shorter or longer period, 
affect the stability of societies all over the planet. The topic of 
‘Wealth of Nations’ this year will delve into the influences that the 
Economic and Financial sectors have on society and consequently, on 
cultural production.

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Exhibition Wealth of Nations
6-14 June, 2009
17:00 - 23:00
Trg Slobode, Novi Sad


Daniel Andujar
Derivart
Heath Bunting
Hempman
IRWIN (in collaboration with Marina Abramovic and Bojan Brecelj)
Islamic Banking
Kate Rich
K Foundation
The end of the Crown
Luchezar Boyadziev
Max Keiser
Metahaven
Michael Aschauer
Mladen Stilinovic
Natalie Jeremijenko and The Bureau of Inverse Technologies
Ola Pehrson
Shu Lea Cheng
Slavko Bogdanovic
Vladimir Todorovic
Loan for Economic Revival of Serbia


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Conference Wealth of Nations
7-8 June, 2009
11 am - 5 pm
Serbian National Theatre, Chamber Stage
Pozorisni trg 1, Novi Sad

Finances and monetary policy are mostly a matter of interest exclusively 
of a small circle of devotees. Even the social sciences, broadly 
speaking, avoided exploring the mutual relation between finances and 
other aspects of social activities. However, with the serious 
development of financial crisis some questions, which go behind the 
narrow sector of economy and finances, have been emerging.

Having experienced the Great Depression in the 30s of the 20th century, 
and its implications for the beginning of the Second World War, there 
are many of those who are worried about the further development of the 
present state of capitalism's global crisis. The development of so 
called criticism of finances, is trying to explore other models of 
economies and relations which bypass the so called monetary ideology and 
praxis, as dominant form of economic conversion, within the context of 
symbolic trade.

Syntax "Wealth of Nations" (Adam Smith) is on one hand, an ironic theme 
for today's state of liberal economy in crisis, and on the other hand, 
raises a serious question: what really constitutes value? Is it social 
interaction, beliefs and fears along with market indexes? To what extent 
is money nature or culture? Is money equivalent of goods, labour, or is 
it self-referential?

At the conference participants and speakers, including economists, 
sociologists, artists, activists, philosophers and culture 
theoreticians, will try to answer these questions and provoke a wider 
debate on finances, as the social praxis, and its wider implications in 
domain of rational and irrational.



June 7th, Sunday

11:00 - 13:00
MAN-DEATH-CREDIT

Slavko Bogdanovic
Stefan Heidenreich
Ralph Heidenreich


15:00 - 17:00
RESOURCES-WEALTH-PROPERTY

Konrad Becker
Matteo Pasquineli
Marko Rakic


June 8th, Monday

11:00 - 13:00
VALUE-ALGORITHM-MAGIC

Darko Pantelic
Felix Stalder


15:00 - 17:00
ART-INVESTMENT-INDEX

Luchezar Boyadziev
Mar Canet
Shu Lea Cheang

Exhibition and conference “Wealth of Nations” are the part of Cinema 
City festival, Novi Sad 

www.cinemacity.org
http://eng.cinemacity.org/media-art.56.html

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Curators:
Vladan Joler, Kristian Lukic, Gordana Nikolic

Conference editors:
Kristian Lukic, Gordana Nikolic


Production:
STATE OF EXIT & The Creatures, Novi Sad

Co-production:

Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad www.msuv.org
Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies-NAPON, Novi Sad 
www.napon.org
Art association - INBOX, Novi Sad www.inbox.rs