Tonio Flores: Tanawin / I took a walk and was fed / A Moving Feast
3–24 April 2024 / Utrecht (various locations) We’re teaming up with Utrecht University’s Critical Pathways to welcome Tonio Flores in Utrecht! Food is the most intimate way we conspire with ecologies; it forms and revises landscapes, territories, bodies, and beliefs. Currently, there is a rise of farmers’ protests enraged by increasingly unjust trade and […]
L’école d’été #1
3 June 2023, 11:00–13:00 / 19, Crac, Montbéliard (France) In the framework of the exhibition La Ville En Jeux by The Outsiders. The Outsiders (the collective behind Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills) are currently exhibiting at 19, Crac as well as taking part in their commons-focused summer school. Here, they bring together various works testifying […]
Embroidering For Our Sisters #2
Sunday 30 April, 11:00–18:00 / Casco HQ,RSVP via embroideringforoursisters@proton.me Artistic solidarity meeting by Ana Bravo Pérez – now at our space in Utrecht following the earlier minga at WORM Rotterdam Embroidering For Our Sisters is a minga by artist and filmmaker Ana Bravo Pérez in collaboration with fashion designer Johana Molina, curator Joram Kraaijeveld and women from […]
Nina bell F. House Museum public workshops
#1 Friday 10 March 2023 / Online via Zoom (link)17:00–19:00 SG time / 10:00–12:00 CET #2 Wednesday 15 March 2023 / Singapore (tickets)19:00–22:00 SG time – At The Main Deck, L3 #3 Thursday 16 March 2023 / Singapore (tickets)11:00–18:00 SG Time – at SAM Level 3 Conference room and Level 5 Natasha exhibition space #1 Introductory […]
Healing Colors
Saturday 11 March 2023, 10:00–18:00 / AmsterdamLocation is NeverNeverLand Osso, Frans de Wollantstraat 84Contact through healingcolors@proton.me Healing Colors is an artistic, communal workshop in which the healing properties of organic colors from the natural, endangered ecosystems such as the Amazon will be explored to create a series of textile works to heal personal traumas and […]
Disobedient Art School
17 & 18 December 2022, 10:00–19:00 / Casco HQRSVP here. There is a capacity of 40 people.€32 (regular) / €45 (supporter) / €22 (supported). Prices include lunch/coffee/tea/snacks The Disobedient Art School is excited to invite you to a gathering full of workshops where we will explore and share embodied, spiritual, artistic, and activist practices that […]
GDR GOES ON CHECK IN
28–30 October 2010 / Utrecht CHECK IN is a series of temporary communal occasions where key issues emerging from GDR research are discussed and re-articulated in close relation to specific domestic spaces in Utrecht, including the GDR apartment, the Rietveld Schröderhuis (RSH) and the house next door to the RSH. Each occasion highlights selected ongoing […]
Gemene Grond: Water is what we make it (hydrocommons)
Friday 10 June, 16.00–18.00 / Casco HQ Casco Art Institute will host the final presentations of Water is what we make it: Gemene Grond‘s first artistic residency programme on the confluence of art, science and urban planning; working on new visualisations and speculative interventions for the redevelopment of the Leidse Rijn canal and its embankments in the heart of Utrecht. In […]
The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual (GDR)
6 November 2011–27 February 2012 / Casco HQOpening 5 November 2011, 18:00 Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory cordially invites you to join us for the opening of the project exhibition The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual. INTRODUCTION In October 2009 Casco initiated The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual (GDR) in […]
COHAB: an assembly of spare parts
22 May–10 July 2011 / Casco HQ In recent years, the so-called genre of “public art” has undergone a dematerialisation process. As the public sphere has been understood increasingly in terms of a heterogeneous and agonistic discursive state, the emphasis has shifted to public art’s communicative and relational functions. In this course of development, public […]
A Well Respected Woman or Room of Echoes book launch
13 May 2011 / AmsterdamBook launch for A Well Respected Man or Book of Echoes taking place in the framework of the program Books@Temporary Stedelijk 2 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam)Reservation is required. This event marks the launch of the publication A Well Respected Man or Book of Echoes. The book, edited […]
seeing studies workshops and book release
19–22 January 2011 / Casco HQLanguage: English and Farsi (translations provided) Location: Casco (Nieuwekade 213-215) and the nearby Casco GDR apartment (Bemuurde Weerd oz 18 b, Utrecht) In order to attend, please make a reservation with Cindy. seeing studies Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Ashkan Sepahvand for the institute for incongruous translation Casco invites you to four days […]
The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON
28 October–16 December 2010 / Utrecht CHECK IN: 28 & 29 October 19:00-21:00; 30 October 15:00–17:00 READ-IN: 30 October 18:00–21:00 HOME CINEMA: 31 October 14:00–18:00 FORUM: 21 November 14:00–18:00 ACTION: 15 & 16 December 10:00–18:00 Reservations are required for all events as space is limited, please contact Cindy van Rooijen. For ACTION, advanced inquiry on the terms of participation […]
Our Economies
14 February–22 April 2009 / Casco HQ Public mapping workshops: Every Wednesday and Thursday from 18 February to 9 March 2009 12:30–13:30, 17:00–18:00 The workshops are free of charge and open to the public. You are very welcome to join the workshops or contribute a map at any time during the exhibition. For more information, please […]
Generale Staten Workshop & Game/Performance
20–23 November 2008 / Casco HQWorkshop: Thursday 20–Saturday 22 November 2008 at Casco Game/Performance: Sunday 23 November 2008, 15:00–17:00 at Babel (Oudenoord 275, Utrecht Generale Staten (General States) is a project by Dutch artist Mieke Van de Voort, developed in collaboration with Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The project […]
Playground Press
15 October 2017, 14:00–16:00 / Casco HQ Commons for Children workshop as part of Culturele Zondagen During the Utrecht Cultural Sunday on 15 October, Casco and artist Merel Zwarts host a new edition of our Commons for Children series of workshops. This time around, the young participants become part of Playground Press. This is a […]
Telestreet workshop
25–26 Feb 2006 / Casco HQ Telestreet is a network of close to 200 micro TV transmitters that have sprung from Italy’s vibrant political counter-culture, broadcasting in the shadows of mainstream media. Telestreet has grown not just in opposition to media tycoon and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s control of close to 90% of the daily […]
I Can’t Work Like This
1 May–23 June 2012 / Casco HQ “What do you mean, you can’t work like this?” The project I Can’t Work Like This creates a platform for examining our working conditions in the permanent crisis of the neo-liberal economic regime, and for learning how workers from variant sectors can get effectively organized. We propose to […]
GDR GOES ON: Ljubljana
4 October 2013–21 October 2013 / LjubljanaOpening: Friday 4 October, 19:00hrs Locations: Storefront, Breg 22 and Azil Bookshop, Novi Trg 2, Ljubljana “Ce me ne vidiš, še ne pomeni da ne delam.” (Although you don’t see me, it doesn’t mean I don’t work.) – Ask! action slogan by Revolt Social Workers, Ljubljana The third edition of […]
Gestures and Embodiments, or, How To Live Together
6 September 2013, 19:00–22:00 / Goleb’s Project Space During the early half of 2013, Christian Nyampeta, a London based artist, became a regular resident and active participant at Goleb studios. Christian joined us through collaboration with Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht for its Artist at Work program. We would like […]
Publishing Class talk with Gwen Allen & picnic book launch
18 October 2013–19 October 2013 / UtrechtCasco office (Nieuwekade 213) and Casco Storefront (Voorstraat 88) Together with the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) MFA/Artez, we gladly invite you to join us for a talk with art historian Gwen Allen as well as a fall picnic book launch with Hanan Benammar, Aziza Harmel, Maja Hodošcek, Isabel Marcos, […]
Entanglement~Siasat
21 November–30 November 2013 / JakartaOpening: 9 November until 30 November 2013, at Basement of Teater Jakarta – Taman Ismail Marzuki Jl. Cikini Raya No. 73, Central Jakarta. On the invitation of the 15th Jakarta Biennale, Casco comes to the second stage of Entanglement by organizing a workshop with other participating art initiatives and organizations (in […]
Sitting is a Verb-Rietveld for (Un)usual Business
06 July 2013, 11:00–17:00 / UtrechtHoog Catharijne in front of C&A in the Radboudkwartier Join us this Saturday. No reservation is required. Just come and join! You can still be a Sunday carpenter and Rietveld Crate-chair maker! The experience of building the chair together with your fellow carpenters is rewarding! • During the building process, the […]
Publishing in Process. Ownership in Question
30 November 2013, 14:00–17:00 / Casco HQFree entrance. Please RSVP by sending an e-mail to Sanne Oorthuizen. Workshop and Undoing Property book launch with Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak After Stockholm, London, and Berlin, Undoing Property?, a book and project by London-based artist Marysia Lewandowska and New York-based curator Laurel Ptak lands in Utrecht. The […]
Entanglement~Urban Trajectories
11 June–23 June 2013 / Casco HQ Inspired by various artistic practices and urban geographical research (see below for some of our sources of inspiration), Casco begins a new research project, Entanglement. With this ongoing inquiry, we propose a topological understanding of space. Instead of an entity, a quantity or an identity, which can easily […]
Guattari & Sci-Fi Weekend
13–14 December 2014, 16:00–22:00 / Casco HQ Please register to participate by contacting Ying Que and receive the detailed program and reading materials. It’s free but seats are limited. Casco – Office for Art, Design & Theory invites you to join a weekend with the workshop—or seeance—UIQ in LOVE_A Love of UIQ: Between Translation and […]
Masculinity Without Men: Queer Performance and Workshop
11 October 2014 / Casco HQ The workshop can accommodate up to 30 people and we kindly request that you register in advance by sending an e-mail to Ying Que. “[F]ar from being an imitation of maleness, female masculinity actually affords us a glimpse of how masculinity is constructed as masculinity. In other words, female […]
New Habits in Amsterdam
21 May–25 May 2014 / AmsterdamPlease contact Yolande van der Heide to join the workshop on 21 & 22 May, 13:00–18:00! Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory extends a leg of its recently opened exhibition New Habits at Kunstvlaai in Amsterdam, and continues (Un)usual Business School of Cooperation, a workshop series by Amsterdam-based […]
Arts Collaboratory Assembly: Indonesia
19 May–25 May 2014 / Jakarta The Assembly brings together the 24 participating organizations of the network in Indonesia for a week-long series of encounters. It centers around a series of working groups addressing a variety of topics including crisis and post-crisis sites, alternative pedagogies, urban intervention, rewriting (art) histories in terms of organizational practices, […]
The Utrecht Common(s) Course
23 April–30 April 2014 / Casco HQ The first session is 18:30 hrs on Wednesday 23 April at Casco’s new location in the museum quarter at Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht. The form and content of the subsequent sessions is informed by what happens and who takes part. Participants are encouraged to take part on all […]
Inqueersections Festival
14 February 2014–16 February 2014 / Amsterdam The workshops are free of charge and require no pre-registration. The timetable and complete descriptions of the workshops can be found on the website at www.inqueersections.org. Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory is delighted to host Inqueersections Festival, which is dedicated to exploring the possibilities and […]
FAQs on Art & Commons & Rethinking Economics Zine Making
18 May 2019, 10:00–20:00Amsterdam CREA, Nieuwe Achtergracht 168-178, Amsterdam The festival is free for students and €5 for non-students for the entire day. Casco Art Institute contributes to the program of this year’s Rethinking Economics Festival with a room full of resources on commons-related economies and artistic practices. The room features material from the ongoing […]
Coffee & Questions Goes West: support for young creative professionals
14 April 2019, 13:00–15:00Utrecht You are welcome on Sunday, 14 April between 13:00 and 15:00 to the second edition of “Coffee & Questions” a walk-in consultation for upcoming artists and designers organized in the context of Culturele Zondag Go West in the Havenloods at the new cultural hotspot ‘De Vrijhaven’ (Nijverheidsweg 6). If you want […]
Coffee & Questions: support for young creative professionals
13 January 2019, 11:00–13.00Casco HQ The pilot of Coffee & Questions, a walk-in consultation session for artists and designers at the start of their careers. If you want to be sure of a consultation session, we highly recommend you secure an appointment via Erik Uitenbogaard. On Sunday, 13 January from 11:00–13:00 hrs, we host the […]
Study Meeting on the future of Terwijde farmhouse
18 October 2018, 18:00–22:00 / Utrecht The Study Meeting is free of charge, but due to limited seats we ask you to reserve a spot. The inaugural Study Meeting on the future of Terwijde farmhouse; urban, rural and land commons; and ecological (un)learning centers around the question: A large farmhouse on the remaining plot of a […]
Hop Hope Hof
25 February 2018–04 November 2018 / Casco HQ To enroll, send an email to Merel Zwarts by Saturday, 21 April. We hope to see you on Sunday, 22 April! Casco shares the tranquil Abraham Dolehof courtyard with residents and other art and cultural spaces in the middle of the Utrecht museum quarter. We hold joint […]
Army of Love at Studium Generale: Hold Me Now – Feel and Touch in an Unreal World
14 February 2018, 13:30–15:30 / Amsterdam Join the Army of Love on Wednesday, 14 February at the “preliminary program” of Hold Me Now – Feel and Touch in an Unreal World as part of Studium Generale’s 2017-18 extensive artistic research trajectory that focuses on touch in artistic, philosophical, and political terms to conceive of how […]
Commons for Children
10–13 July 2017 / Casco HQ Commons for Children XVI Biennale IASC Conference: Practicing the Commons: Self-governance, cooperation and institutional change 10–13 July 2017 The Commons for Children conference addresses the topic of commoning from a young generation’s perspective. During the conference, children will be invited to cook, work, create, and play together. The participants […]
Army of Love Training Camp
11–14 October 2017 / Utrecht The four-day training camp includes workshops and discussions shaped by the workshop leaders, open-call participants, current Army of Love members, and some of the Casco team. Each workshop day includes morning exercises, 2 x two-hour workshop sessions, lunch, and an afternoon meditation/wind-down period. Our goal is twofold: we will investigate […]
Radio Kakofonie
12 March 2017, 12:00–16:00 Stadhuisplein in Utrecht Radio workshop for children, with artist Merel Zwarts, Stadhuisplein Utrecht, Culturele Zondag As part of Casco’s ongoing program for children during Culturele Zondagen (Cultural Sundays), we and the artist Merel Zwarts would like to invite local children and their parents to take part in the radio workshop Radio […]
Army of Love Introductory event
19 January 2017, 17:00–21:00 / Casco HQIf you would like to attend our Army of Love introductory event on Thursday 19 January, please make a reservation by Monday 16 January. For those visiting Casco – Office for Art, Design & Theory for the first time, it might be useful to understand accessibility in our beautiful […]
(Un)usual Business Festival: Gat in de Markt
11 September 2016, 12:00–17:00 / Casco HQ Festival of alternative economies at Casco (Un)usual Business (UB) warmly invites you to their festival Gat in de Markt [“gap in the market”]. Gat in de Markt is a festival for and by commoners – people who have taken control over their daily lives and found ways to […]
Mobile-making Workshop for Children
1 May 2016, 14:00–16:00 / Utrecht Mobile-making is the next in our series of workshops dedicated to children (and their parents!) with artist Merel Zwarts, on the occasion of the “Bestemming bereikt” [“You’ve reached your destination”] edition of Utrecht’s citywide Cultural Sunday. Mobile-making here is a framework for kids to explore and “hang” their ideas, […]
Fueling Precarity
30 April 2016, 14:00–22:00 / Casco HQ Workshop and Public Program: Fueling Precarity14:00–17:00 hrs: workshop (invite only)19:30–22:00 hrs (public) The age of the post-war welfare state, in which the state offered some degree of protection and security in exchange for governmental legitimacy, is over. Insecurity is employed to fuel “economic development,” “urban innovation,” or generate […]
We Are the Time Machines Study Program
15 November 2015–13 March 2016 / Casco HQ Introduction “They’re building something in there, something down there, a different kind of speculation, a speculation called ‘study,’ a debt speculation, a speculative mutuality. Mutual debt, unpayable debt, unbounded debt, unconsolidated debt, debt to each other in a study group, to others in a nurses’ room, to […]
City of Flags
18 October 2015, 14:00–15:30 / Casco HQ The next edition of Cultural Sunday: Alles Kids is completely dedicated to kids! Artist Merel Zwarts hosts a workshop for children between 7-12 about the meaning of flags. Bring your kids to make a flag about your city and join us for a joyful flag parade through the […]
Entanglement: Diagrams for the commons
27–28 February 2015 / Casco HQ The program is free, but reservations are necessary for the lectures and/or workshop. What if you imagine yourself not as a dot to be tracked, but as a line that continuously passes through, connects, overlaps, and entangles with others? That you are part of myriad shifting diagrams which give […]
Organizing and Strategies to Politicize the Commons
31 January 2015, 10:30–12:00PIP, BINK36, Binckhorstlaan 36, The Hague 2.Dh5 asks for a symbolic entrance fee of EUR 5, or more for those who have something extra to spare. No reservation is needed and food and drinks are provided for a small price. We would like to share with you news of the upcoming, inspiring […]
Story / Heritage, Chapter 2: The irresistible shade of the vine
30 April 2020 / Online The second chapter of Common Grounds: Story / Heritage explores storytelling as a way to develop a connection to a place. There are memories that are not legible in the architecture or archive but can be remembered, shared, and imagined together in the present. Folklore, mythology, and gossip shape the […]
