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Event at Municipal Center of Arts Hélio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro to launch the first prototype of Bankanga InterTropical, an art-initiative imagining financial futures from the tropics.

Launching the Bankanga InterTropical

On the occasion of the event in Rio de Janeiro, we shared our braindances, a set of principles for choreographing InterTropical financial flows and circulating value across tropi-localities. 

Braindances: Principles for InterTropical Financial Futures

Feiticinhos ("tiny spells"), is a labour-exchange game informed by the Commitment Pooling Protocol by the Kenyan initiative Grassroots Economics.

Feiticinhos: Casting spells for a Post-Money-Bank

Bankanga InterTropical – Launch | Rio de Janeiro

During our 2-week workshop in Rio de Janeiro, we engaged in dialogues with a Coop-Accelerator in Maricá and with Duda Pedreira, who developed a manual to start your own cultural coop as an art project

In Search of Art Cooperativisms

Our research was informed by dialogues with Banco Palmas, the Root-Bank of the community banking movement in Brazil, and field trips to Mumbuca Bank, the largest bank with a local currency in Brazil.

Social Currencies and Community Banking

At Sindycato, a clandestine project space in the Center of Rio, our group weaved ideas around ROSCAS, Stealth Economies, and Social Currencies into a first Prototype of the Bankanga. 

Prototyping Financial Futures from the Tropics

Bankanga InterTropical - Research | Rio de Janeiro

The performative audio essay by Theo F. Gomes proposes a sonic spa that deconstructs financial wellness discourses. Image: Moneyfestations at Klangraum Festival (2025).

Moneyfestations: A Sonic Spa

Moneyfestations drifts between Binaural Beats for Financial Traders, Bitcoin ASMR, and AI-generated music for money attraction, merging sound-healing-technologies with a desire for market domination.

Tuning to Financial Wellness Soundscapes

A growing body of research emerges in relation to Moneyfestations. Different lines of research connect, among others, Binaural Beats with the funding of AI-Warfare and the rise of fascist wellness. 

Brainwave Modulation and the Rise of Fascist Wellness 

Moneyfestations – Undercurrents of Financial Wellness

A two-day workshop program on more-than-human ecologies of value, developed with the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Biology. Image: Cheesecoin (2022) by Inland and Hito Steyerl.

Vital Currencies

Workshop with INLAND: Their productions – crafts, publications & cheese – form the basis for experimental economies. Departing from their Cheesecoin series, we looked at currencies and social bonds.

The Cheesecoin Series or How to Rethink Arts Economics

Lecture by Dr. Maan Barua, human geographer at Cambridge University: Drawing on ethnographic research on human & animal lifeworlds in urban India, the talk proposes an alternate politics of value.

Value: A Minor Politics