Conversation with Bassam El Baroni and film A Modest Proposal on view on Weird Economies


Vermeir & Heiremans’ film A Modest Proposal (2018) (28:07) is permanently on view on the online platform Weird Economies, including a conversation with curator Bassam El Baroni and Weird Economies initiator Bahar Noorizadeh. The full conversation took place on 13 February 2022, and is now on view here (conversation starts at 47:00 and continues to 1:37:15)


For an HD viewing of the film, see A Modest Proposal: Screening and Live Conversation


Read more about Vermeir & Heiremans’ film A Modest Proposal and their eponymous publication around this research trajectory.


Vermeir & Heiremans contributed to a book edited by Bassam El Baroni, Between the Material and the Possible – Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art (Sternberg Press, 2022). Read more here