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Speculative Economies

au JUS Jean Volder, 24, 1060 Bruxelles, Belgium

May 1-15, 2025
https://aujus.be/se-program

Chit, Chat, Fund: A Participatory Experiment in Money & Trust

au JUS
2025

A Chit Fund is a rotating savings and credit system (ROSCA) widely used in India and other countries to promote financial security and collective savings. In this system, a group of individuals contribute a fixed amount of money at regular intervals through a bidding process or lottery. Chit funds can be informal, managed within communities, or formal, regulated under laws such as India’s Chit Funds Act, 1982.

This project was designed as a Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) experience. Through interactive storytelling, negotiations, and financial decision-making, players experienced the risks, rewards, and social dynamics of such a system.

Erotics of Economy: A LARP Wealth Consulting Agency
au JUS
2025

Speculative Economies was a two-week residency and artistic game salon that dealt speculatively with money, processes of financialization and economy of anxiety. To explore the terminology of speculation in this complex, we proposed to both enact and theorise by using games, participatory performance formats and LARP as a medium.

Offering FREE personalized 2:1 consultations
The Erotics of Economy consultation process is designed to edit, adjust, and corrupt the default money scripts an inividual has flowing through their reality’s narrative infrastructures.

By identifying the various dominent storylines operating along an individual’s emotional axis, as well as relevant core beliefs, or “subconscious” imprints. Harvested storylines are treated as data points. Through a consent-driven reconstruction procedure the clients alter their relationship to wealth, money and trust ergo transforming how their reality renders in accordance/ response moving forward.