The Currents Bank: A Next-Generation Distributed Economy Banking System

Abstract

I create research provocations with the intention of generating communion and public ritual by gatheringaround the materiality of our social systems and institutions. A large portion of my practice is spent unpacking present societal structures by investigating artifacts of the status quo. I'm interested in artifacts that embody power, such as money and other forms of currency, credit cards, or IDs. I augment these power-objects to the extent that they elicit the viewer to question object-embodied power. I want us to focus on our present ways of knowing; How do these power-objects construct our ways of knowing? How is it that we can sense their power? What is their relationship to our ways of being because they are powerful? How might close examination of these objects hold the keys to changing our experiences? Investigating these questions is disorienting, and in reorienting, perhaps we'll share greater faith in whatever we know to be possible.