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Bahar Noorizadeh - Market Esoterics, an Artistic Account

Despite claims to market rationality, the unknown endured in the economic undercurrent of modern political systems, reaching full fruition in advanced financial markets. This necessary obscurity means that markets operate not on the basis of transparency, as rationalist theories propose, but instead of obscurity; as an esoterics. Through a cinematic account, this talk traces the footprints of esotericism on the worldbuilding mega-projects of Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos, early neoliberals' market metaphysics, and even cybernetic socialist utopias. This survey will help us examine what speculative strategies can bring to tackling today’s predatory practices of finance. Bio: Bahar Noorizadeh looks at the relationship between art and capitalism. In her practice as an artist, writer and filmmaker, she examines the conflictual and contradictory notions of imagination and speculation as they suffuse one another. Her research investigates the histories of economics, cybernetic socialism, and activist strategies against the financialization of life and the living space, asking what redistributive historical justice might look like for the present. Noorizadeh is the founder of Weird Economies, a co-authored and socially-connected project that traces economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time. Her work has appeared at the German Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial 2021, Tate Modern Artists’ Cinema Program, Transmediale Festival, DIS Art platform, Berlinale Forum Expanded, and Geneva Biennale of Moving Images among others. Noorizadeh has contributed essays to e-flux Architecture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Sternberg Press; and forthcoming anthologies from Duke University Press and MIT Press. She is pursuing her work as a PhD candidate in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London where she holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.