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# Four Virtual Artistic Interventions From the Jemand Society Explore Speculative Futures
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/jemand-society-virtual-artistic-interventions-explore-speculative-futures/
- Published: 2022-02-01T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:10:45.000Z
- Description: To examine utopias and dystopias, artists Jeremy Bailey, Lucie Freynhagen, Sam Lavigne, and Janne Kummer stage online interventions inspired by 19th-century writer Bertha von Suttner.
- Author: Rosy DX
- Tags: Announcement, Event Announcement, Exhibition Announcement, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:22 (2021, 2022, part 2)

On February 4, 2022, the [*Jemand Society*](https://bit.ly/3KMOdkj?ref=hyperallergic.com) will launch with an online performance by the self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey, followed by a different artistic intervention every Friday throughout the rest of the month.

Bailey, alongside Lucie Freynhagen, Sam Lavigne, and Janne Kummer (Aka.Alaska) form the core of the *Jemand Society*, a group of artists exploring concepts of utopia and dystopia through virtual interventions that aim to engage audiences in imagining, speculating, and, possibly, taking action towards desirable futures.

Created by the [Goethe-Institut USA](https://bit.ly/3AzYjQQ?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Goethe-Institut Canada](https://bit.ly/3u5wsGN?ref=hyperallergic.com) in collaboration with [Rosy DX](https://bit.ly/35uzBG5?ref=hyperallergic.com), the *Jemand Society* draws its name from a pseudonym used by the 19th-century writer and pacifist Bertha von Suttner: “Jemand” (from German, meaning “someone”), under which she published her book *Das Maschinenalter* (1889). In the novel, she approaches the present while looking back from the perspective of a fictitious future. Like von Suttner, the members of the *Jemand Society* provide a glimpse into the present through lenses of possible futures, questioning the status quo.

**Online Programs**

- [February 4: Launch event for “PAC” by Jeremy Bailey](https://bit.ly/346Pfa8?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- [February 11: Performance of “XOwB” by Janne Kummer](https://bit.ly/32Nt0W6?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- [February 18: Launch of “Capitalist Gene” by Sam Lavigne](https://bit.ly/3HmraL4?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- [February 25: Opening for “Wunderkammer of Passing Futures” by Lucie Freynhagen](https://bit.ly/3ISKIHc?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Artists Cibelle Cavali Bastos, Heran Genene, Olga Hohmann, Anton Krause, Shawné Michaelaine Holloway, Alla Popp, and Clemens Reinecke are collaborators in *Jemand Society* projects.

**For more information, visit** [**jemandsociety.com**](https://bit.ly/3KMOdkj?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**