User:ØverLørd/farfarfutureColloquium

Devising a portfolio through far far future speculation:

Schedule

Introduction: 15min
making: 35min
Talking & Sharing: 5-10min

Introduction

Today we are going to speculate in far far futures, through making clay tokens and describing them in a form. To contextualize this exercise I introduce to you the The Far Far Futre Fund: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~v/farfarfuturefund

On behalf of the fund, we as artists and researchers are going to construct a physical representation of the fund, as a sort of founding document. We will use clay as it is a medium well suited for documents to last for potentially thousands of years.

The "document" will be constructed through crafting small clay tokens, akin the ones used in oral preliterate cultures. Which were used to count, store and communicate economic data. In our case the tokens should "count" something that you think holds value indefinitely.

More information on these tokens can be found on the university of Texas' webiste: https://sites.utexas.edu/dsb/tokens/tokens/ written by proffessor Denise Schmandt-Besserat who have contributed a lot to what we know about these tokens, like with her book How writing came about (1996) amongst others.

The tokens we make and their meaning, as in what they are "counting" (or representing symbolizing, denoting) will be documented in a form.

This exercise will hopefully result in a collection of tokens, that can serve as a blueprint for how the funds portfolio, as in how the fund can be invested in to the different things that the tokens "count".

Making

Start making clay token(s), while trying to answer the question:
What will hold value indefinitely, what will always be considered valuable?
You can either start by filling in the form, or by exploring with clay!