On the Next Economy - Triple Canopy

On the Next Economy
Christopher Kulendran Thomas

Christopher Kulendran Thomas is an artist whose work manipulates the structural processes by which art produces reality. In his long-term project New Eelam, he asks how, in an age of technologically accelerated dislocation, citizenship might be conceived anew beyond national boundaries. Thomas is the founder and CEO of New Eelam, a real estate technology company that is developing a flexible, subscription-based service that grants access to (and collective ownership of) a stock of housing worldwide. Thomas has had solo exhibitions at Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin), Institute for Modern Art (Brisbane), Spike Island (Bristol) and Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm). His work has been presented at the 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen); the Eleventh Gwangju Biennale; the Ninth Berlin Biennale; the third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit; and in exhibitions at the the De Young Museum (San Francisco), V-A-C Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale, Tate Liverpool, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New Galerie (Paris), and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Tate Liverpool (2013). Thomas lives and works between London and Berlin.

“On the Next Economy” was published as part of Two Ears and One Mouth, Triple Canopy’s twenty-sixth issue, which is made possible through the generous support of the Stolbun Collection, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

26 Two Ears and One Mouth

The Great Equalizer, by Alexander Provan
Omniaudience, by Triple Canopy & Nikita Gale
Parts of Speech at MCA Chicago, by Triple Canopy & Public Fiction
On the Difficulties in Writing the Truth, by Hari Kunzru
On What We Owe, by Astra Taylor & Laura Hanna
On Similitude, by Steffani Jemison with Garrett Gray
On Onomatopoeia, by Tomeka Reid with Taylor Ho Bynum, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu & Mike Reed
On Labor and Management, by Julio Torres
On the Next Economy, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Parts of Speech
Rave, by Rainald Goetz
Stereomodernism, by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Listening, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
A Cinder Block Falling on Concrete, by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
The Black Catatonic Scream, by Harmony Holiday
LITTLE GIRLS, by Nikita Gale
Second Rate, by Jonathan Sterne & Mara Mills
Table of Visions, by Tashi Wada with Alexander Provan
Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
Answers with Questions, by Gregg Bordowitz with Jasmine Nyende, Vivien Goldman, Joy Ladin, Kendall Thomas, Morgan Bassichis & The Illustrious Pearl
On the Letterform of the Age, by Bo-Won Keum
A Heavy Nonpresence, by Derica Shields
i have too much to hide, by Benjamin Krusling
And Besides, It’s True, by Paige K. B. & Tiffany Sia
Medium Rotation, Season 1: Omniaudience, by Alexander Provan & Nikita Gale with Harmony Holiday, Derica Shields, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Tashi Wada
Episode 1: Twenty Thousand Bodies Can’t Be Wrong, by Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 2: Holy Ghosts, by Harmony Holiday with Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 3: The Big Society, by Derica Shields with Nikita Gale & Alexander Provan
Episode 4: The Dead Can Dance, by Tashi Wada
Light Shows, by Benjamin Krusling, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Asiya Wadud
Episode 5: Get Lower, by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Episode 6: Little Symphonies, by Nikita Gale
Live in Concert, by Harmony Holiday & Fred Moten

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