The Common Wallet

As part of our Grey Tuesdays investigations at Hangar, we are taking on the spectre of Money – that core administrative material, emotional quicksand, and the elephant in any conversation. Our interest in money goes beyond demands for fair pay – or just getting more of it – to experiments at the edges of what seems possible to do.

The Common Wallet is an initiative of eleven Brussels-based people who lived out of a common bank account for nearly 5 years. They wired all their individual income into the shared account, and each used the money according to their needs, wishes and desires, no matter if it corresponded with the income they contributed or not. By detaching money from individual ownership, the Common Wallet questions taboos and injustices within the current financial system. Their audacious aim is to convert money into a means to enable listening, care, transparency and even joy among people.

Our next Grey Tuesday features Common Wallet’s Christophe Meierhans, in conversation with Hangar’s Administrative Fellow Kate Rich, to sift through the experiment and its findings. This warm-up chat will be followed by an opportunity for immersive action, to imagine for a moment how such radical bookkeeping could play out in our own situations and lives.

Christophe Meierhans (Geneva, 1977) works in performing arts, music and pedagogy. Infused by degrowth values and perspectives, his practice is rooted in ecology and systems thinking. He was a founding member of the C&H performance collective, The Common Wallet, Extinction Rebellion Belgium, and the More than Enough campaign. From 2025 until 2027 he is co-curator of the /School of Enough /an international exchange program for activist-artistic projects in Italy, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland.

 

Practical Information
Date: Tuesday, July 1st
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Hangar’s offices (M door)
The session will be held in English, with whispered translation provided if needed
Free activity. To participate, please register using the following form

Image: Common Wallet