Weird Economies (W.E), is a journal, programming space and social experimental site that traces economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time. W.E takes on an expanded chrono-political strategy, wherein past (vindication), present (location), and future (fabrication) are commensurable grounds for the extrapolation of weird—and weirder—economies.

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Health as Individual vs Health as Social

For the following month Weird Economies is hosting weekly screenings of Melanie Gilligan's works. Health as Individual vs. Health as Social (2021) is a two-screen video work that looks at health from two opposed perspectives: health seen as only the concern of an individual versus health understood as related to social conditions. The work consists of two videos, one on a large projection screen and the other on a small television screen inset inside it. Both screens play simultaneously, showing the two very different videos that reflect opposite approaches to dealing with illness in society. The video work that is playing on the smaller internal television screen is a work that reflects on my personal story through the performances of three actors from my film The Common Sense. The actors perform a monologue about how I have a serious health condition, multiple sclerosis, and how I did not tell people about this for many years because it felt like in the societies where I have lived, people are asked not to show vulnerability. In the large video projection, myself and two translators conduct vox pop interviews on the street in Berlin. We talk with people about their social and labour situations during COVID-19. We speak to doctors, people with health conditions and housing activists. The interviews develop from questions focused on how illnesses such as COVID-19 and all types of illness, are impacted by many social factors and societal conditions such as jobs, housing, discrimination, the built environment and social forms of support.
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