How does art for and of commoning operate in a country like China where economic and social inequality and class segregation deepen, while freedom of expression shrinks and direct activism is suppressed?

School in Common with Jing Y. Ng, Song Yi, and Zoénie Liwen Deng

Sunday, 1 September 2019, 15:00 – 17:30
At Casco Art Institute's Office Gallery
In conjunction with the symposium ChinaCreative at University of Amsterdam, 29 – 31 August 2019.

Casco Exhibits: Het is of de stenen spreken (silence is a commons), four solo shows by Babi Badalov, Ansuya Blom, Ama Josephine Budge, and Mire Lee

14 September - 3 November 2019

If together we talk and separately we understand, what might we understand together if we listen to the stones speak? How do we unlearn to speak for the commons and listen to them instead? And how can we protect language commons that are of neither power nor capital?

Het is of de stenen spreken (silence is a commons), featuring four solo shows by Babi Badalov, Ansuya Blom, Ama Josephine Budge and Mire Lee opens on Saturday, 14 September, 12:00 – 18:00, in conjunction with Uitfeest 2019. Uitfeest is the festive opening of Utrecht’s cultural season organized by Culturele Zondagen and takes place at Domplein, just a two minute walk from the exhibitions at Casco Art Institute.

The opening day is punctuated by a series of special artist talks, every hour on the hour, by each of the exhibiting artists, both in the exhibition spaces and at the Casco coffee mobile on Domplein. This mobile will be filled with stories for and by the citizens of Utrecht on languages, translations, and misunderstandings of humans and non-humans alike. More on this mobile and its different outings in Utrecht will be revealed throughout this exhibition season.

As part of Uitfeest 2019, Casco Art Institute presents a special coffee mobile on Domplein. Uitfeest is the festive opening of Utrecht’s cultural season organized by Culturele Zondagen and takes place at Domplein, just a two minute walk from the exhibitions at Casco Art Institute.

A new edition of the networking event Art Meat organized by Art Utrecht and hosted at FOTODOK and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons!

More information about the program and a link to sign up will follow soon.

The second Assembly for commoning art institutions, using on art organization as sites for unlearning, will focus on the urgent issue of climate change from an intersectional perspective. A responsive code for arts institutions in times of climate change will be developed together with partners.

More information will follow soon, at the start of the new exhibition season, in the meantime please save the date!

School in Common with Centraal Museum in conjunction with Wendelien van Oldenbourgh's Cinema Olanda. Organised in the being of the study line Angry Letters.

More information to follow at the start of the new exhibition season, please save the date!