31 August–13 October, 2024 / Casco HQ
Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA, Utrecht
Opening 31 August, 15:00–19:00. With words by Aline Hernández, Marianna Takou, and Jip van Klaveren from Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons team, along with contributions from Daeun Lim and members of lumbung Kios and Mutual Support Platform networks, at 16:00.
Visit us every Thursday–Sunday, 12:00–18:00
Or by appointment, email info@casco.art
Hidden Arts: What do we make when no one sees us is a group exhibition exploring alternative economies of collectivity, shared resource building, and arts organizing. The exhibition is closely tied to the recent organizational shift at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, which brought together a small, newly assembled team of long-term collaborators to steer Casco’s recomposition in an ecosystem-centered way. In this context, the exhibition marks our first curatorial project, underscoring our commitment moving forward: to cultivate hope for collective change by highlighting the diverse economic and organizational possibilities that exist today while tooling for those desired in the near future.
The exhibition is conceived as a dedicated time and space to celebrate, reflect on, and exchange around translocal models of cooperation, collaboration, and solidarity in the arts from the perspective of RAIN, Arts Collaboratory (AC), and lumbung Kios—three artistic networks with interrelated stories of becoming—as well as the Mutual Support Platform (MSP), a network connected to MAFA HKU, Utrecht.
Hidden Arts further explores questions of sustainability and dignified livelihoods in the arts by engaging with interdisciplinary projects that experiment with administration, entrepreneurship, trade, and accounting. These projects are led by practitioners Daeun Lim, Kate Rich, and Krista Jantowski & Display Distribute.
Additionally, the exhibition serves as a moment to test alternative modalities of arts production, exhibition-making, and redistribution in the arts. In collaboration with students, alumni, and teachers of MAFA HKU, as well as members of MSP, the exhibition space is partly transformed into a dynamic, useful, and actionable environment. On the ground floor, Casco Kiosk—installed and created in response to the exhibition—explores the possibility of building non-extractive, circular economies of art.
Image description: hands weaving in collective rhythm, channeling the AC-lumbung imaginary, reinterpretation and design by David Bennewith, following the prototype design by Sari Dennise (Cooperativa Cráter Invertido) featuring a drawing from Dasha Chernyseva.
