The Sphere is an emergent network of radical theorists, artists, and technologists cultivating new ecologies of funding for Live Art. Through experiments in web3-based regenerative commons, they invite artists, audiences, collectors, and co-conspirators to share in the risks, joys, and opportunities of art-making.

Initiated in 2021 with the Karmic Funding Campaign—incubated with Creative Europe—The Sphere’s work foregrounds co-ownership, interdependence, and forms of belonging that resist extractivist logics. In 2025, they launched Proof-of-Celebration at Funding the Commons as a culmination of this experimental cycle. Ongoing projects include The Anarchiving Game (2024), a participatory, ever-evolving canvas of collective memory and interpretation, iterated with Serpentine Arts Technologies, RadicalxChange, and Cosmos Institute.

The Sphere challenges conventional models of funding, archiving, and authorship through joyful, critical, and often performative interventions. The project is co-directed by Erik Bordeleau, Pedro Victor Brandão, and Lene Vollhardt.