Thursday, 22 May 2025, 10:00–17:00 / Casco HQ
We cordially invite you to the Radio Climate Kitchen, a day-long public assembly with workshop sessions emerging from our Transdisciplinary Studies with the Year 1 students of the Master of Fine Art, HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht. The event takes place at Casco Art Institute on Thursday, 22 May, from 10:00 to 17:00.
Transdisciplinary Studies understands trans-disciplinarity as dedicated collaborations across, beneath and beyond disciplinary boundaries. We work in diverse and overlapping contexts and with a variety of different, human and more-than human, actors. By allowing ourselves to meet and encounter contexts, topics and issues we know little or nothing about, we explore un-knowing. We are particularly interested in approaches that are open and sensitive to difference(s), in a huge, complex, global and at the same time tiny, situated, multifaceted, local world, in order to develop and synergize our practices within the urgencies of todays’ socio-eco-political fields. There are two ongoing eco-systems of this years’ Transdisciplinary Studies: An Inventory of Sound Heritage (TDPSH) and F.I.R.E. | Edition 06. We work in two groups on both projects from February until June, including a series of moments when the two projects meet and exchange their experiences, insights and approaches.
Throughout our learning sessions, and together with you, we ask the following questions:
How to understand, reconfigure, make sense of, and relate to inheritance when everything is disappearing?
Who’s inheritance are we?
How to transform archives into living acts and meaningful works?
What are the forms, methods, and timeline we can develop together to carry our objects and their histories, stories that have neither beginnings nor endings?
How can we connect (to) seemingly disconnected matters, in the face of the overall separation and destruction and disintegration?
How to practice contributing rhythms, real encounters, generous receptivity and mutual movement in the process?
How to sense and guard and nourish the fire within, while witnessing the fires of war and genocide?
As a way to engage with these questions we experiment with creative learning processes, organizing various gatherings and workshops: Feel Free to Exist, Re(sharing) Archives, Types of Gravity, Hidden Analogue Archive Exposed, listening-sounding-tasting-sensing exercises in simultaneity.
(Re)Sharing Archives Workshop by Emily Ghazal
‘’For this workshop I will be bringing in my own 2d archive which I have collected over 10 years. Within my collection you will find; magazine cuts, stickers, postcards, and found images and text. Look through it, select what you feel you want to keep, duplicate, have, re-use, and use my scanner to send yourself a digital copy! Archives constantly need new life breathed into them, to stay alive and to be used to generate new work. I am curious to hear your interpretations, associations and thoughts while digging through my stuff, so let’s scan & chat!’’
Hidden Analogue Archive Exposed 1952–1998 by Genevieve Hayes & Stijn van Casteren
‘’A storytelling session, and a time capsule, to explore the hidden analogue archives of an artist. We will play the found cassettes and slides. Through the archives, the life of an artist, the cultural era and ecosystem will be drawn and reimagined.’’
Types of Gravity by birdbirdbird collective (Yee Xu & Levin Zimmerman)
‘’Gravity is a mystery. When we are born, we crawl to touch the ground and then learn to stand and walk. Gravity seems to have always been an often ignored existence in our body perception. The workshop Types of Gravity will start a field about body and gravity through sounding and chanting, small dance, writing and breathing as attempts of togetherness and listening. When our perspective falls on gravity, how will we re-see ourselves and the environment around us?
Feel free to exist room by Maria Tzekaki
‘’The idea of creating a space that the body/mind/spirit can be discharged or recharged or even simply exist is coming from the needs of a difficult time that I personally going through. During this period I felt the need to make a restart, a pause, a moment to breathe and to share that with you. I am inviting you to create a space with the use of multisensory items or non-sensory items. This is the space to share our breath, our silence, our listening, our stretching, our “laying down and doing nothing” together or not. Synchronicity is not necessary, but we are trying to respect each other’s space and needs, to be coexisting, and to not harm each other. In other words, we exist in a peaceful anarchy. The sound will be an option only if everyone agrees in the room, or else I suggest you bring your own headphones. Chatting will be very welcome as long as we respect the person near to us. Multisensory items are also very welcome from you. Feel free to bring items that we can feel with our touch, our eyes, our ears, our smell, our taste. Or else just bring your body and enjoy the nothing.’’
