Max Haiven's Blog, page 18
January 21, 2016
Melbourne and Cambridge
In addition to all sorts of exciting things happening in Halifax with the Radical Imagination Project (such as a Free School radical educational gathering March 5-6 – please propose a workshop), I’m excited to do some travel this term. In mid-February I’ll be in Melbourne, Australia to give a masterclass “Beyond the Financialized Imagination” and a lecture […]
January 7, 2016
October 14, 2015
Europe 2015, research and speaking
I’m in Europe this fall delivering a few talks and doing research into struggles against austerity. From October through December I’ll be in Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. Some of my speaking engagements are lining up now. I’ll post more information as it becomes available: BERLIN October 22 – I am participating in the Berliner Gazette’s UN|COMMONS […]
July 4, 2015
Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation (in Finance and Society)
I’m pleased to announce that my essay “Art and Money: Three Aesthetic Strategies in an Age of Financialisation” has been published in the inaugural issue of the post-disciplinary journal Finance and Society on the theme “Hard Cash.” You can read and download the article at http://financeandsociety.org/article/... Abstract Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth […]
June 10, 2015
Regarding the Dam | Watermark review essay
Late last year, I prepared a review essay regarding Edward Burtynksy and Jennifer Baichwal’s film Watermark for Harvard Design Magazine‘s 39th issue “Wet Matter.” Unfortunately, the HDM could only publish and abbreviated version because the issue was packed with a great variety of other fascinating material, all presented in a truly lovely package. Thanks to Pierre Bélanger, Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin […]
June 6, 2015
Reimagining our collective powers against austerity (BG/ROAR)
From http://roarmag.org/2015/06/max-haiven... (In German) from Berliner Gazette Part 1 – http://berlinergazette.de/recht-auf-g... Part 2 – http://berlinergazette.de/commons-als... The following edited text is based on an interview with Max Haiven by the Berliner Gazette on the topic of their annual theme UN|COMMONS. It is published under Creative Commons License. Established in the late 1990s, the Berliner Gazette is an online magazine and […]
June 5, 2015
In conversation about art, finance, imagination and revolution with Zachary Gough
Artist Zachary Gough has, via the Publication Studio, just published a very exciting little book of conversations between himself and Cassie Thornton, Thomas Gokey and me. You can read, download or buy the book A Soft Spot in a Hard Place, here: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/book... Here is the conversation between Zach and me. 
May 13, 2015
A short essay on Futures (2013) by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge
I wrote the following short essay to accompany Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge's exhibition'Scene Otherwise' at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax April 17th - May 13th, 2015 (organized by NSCAD's Anna Leonowens Gallery and part of the Mayworks Festival).
April 4, 2015
“Money as a medium of the Imagination” in the MoneyLab Reader
My chapter "Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation" has been published in the MoneyLab Reader from the Institute for Network Cultures.
“money as a medium of the Imagination” in the MoneyLab Reader
My chapter "Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation" has been published in the MoneyLab Reader from the Institute for Network Cultures.
