Money and Credit: Encounters between Artistic and Research Practices  

Money has been a topic of inquiry in both the arts and academia long before the current widespread debates over budget cuts. For decades, artists have been raising questions about money, debt, speculation and financial transactions not only through their performances but also revealed finance itself to be a performative and representational practice. Money and credit are thus not only addressed as a subject, but also as a medium, a social condition, and as part of a power dynamic. This semester brings together academic research and artistic perspectives to explore money and credit as social, political, and performative relations. Rather than examining finance as a solely economic domain, the suggested readings critically engage with questions of finance in order to render visible processes, infrastructures and knowledge. They also provide a shared set of references for our workshop in December, which will focus specifically on artistic engagements with money and finance in the Netherlands. We suggest reading texts by Marieke de Goede, Falke Pisano, and Marina Vishmidt.

If you are interested in joining, please send us an email at lisafrederike.seidler@fu-berlin.de

06.10.2026, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Marieke de Goede: Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. A Genealogy of Finance. Borderlines 2005, pp. xiii-xv and pp. 1-20.

03.11.2026, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Falke Pisano: „not / to be / governed like that / by that. The Prevention of Poverty.“ Errant Journal: Debt. Nr. 6, 2024, pp. 65-79.

05.01.2027, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Sophie Cras: The Artist as Economist. Art and Capitalism in the 1960s. Yale Univ. Press 2019.

02.02.2027, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Marina Vishmidt: Speculation as a Mode of Production. Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital. Brill 2018.