Art in Permacrisis #8: Vermeir & Heiremans between Speculative Fiction and Operational Realism

20/02/2025 1h 15min
Art in Permacrisis #8: Vermeir & Heiremans between Speculative Fiction and Operational Realism

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Vermeir & Heiremans started their collaborative artistic practice in 2006, when they defined their apartment in Brussels as an artwork and created the Art House Index. In the following decades, they developed a deep artistic research practice focusing on the interplay between art, speculation, finance, and real estate. Ronny Heiremans and Katleen Vermeir have also successfully worked on Belgian art policy development and co-founded the artistic research platform Jubilee. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, from financialisation for the public good to automated art dividends, real estate speculation, bottom-up policymaking, new ways of mutualization, and the lure of art cooperatives.

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