Spring program – Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song How might attuning ourselves to embodied forms of knowing provide new orientations to face the present?
Whose Ocean? An assembly that explores how the ocean can be meaningfully represented on international and national platforms, including courts of law and diplomacy
Leidsche Rijn Listens On the relationship between the city and the countryside, and about the role that art and artists can play in this context.
Unmapping Eurasia Unmapping Eurasia imagines the Eurasian commons beyond the geo-cultural and geo-political divide such as Europe and Asia.
Nina bell F. House Museum The museum embodies the practices of many artists, practitioners and organizations around the world, as found through yet beyond the archives of Casco
Chicago Boys, While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming A 1970s revival band and neoliberalism study group assembled by Kurdish artist and musician Hiwa K.
seeing studies A project by Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Ashkan Sepahvand for the institute for incongruous translation investigates the ways we learn “to see.”
Future Park A two part project involving a series of events that explore the instrumentality of urban parks to imagine a post-capitalist city.
Lying Freely A multi-location, itinerant project by Ruth Buchanan that probes questions around the tension between private and public spheres
Come Alive! A series of public and discursive events exploring artistic, social and archival practices for Casco’s twentieth anniversary
Stadtstaat. A Scenario for Merging Cities – Episode 2 A mise-en-scene of an urban experiment not city twinning, but city merging.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography An exhibition and publication project that brings together a number of mapping strategies and focuses on the map’s function as a political agent.
Generale Staten (General States) A performative and participatory project around the story of a quarantined town in the middle of an unidentifiable, virulent deadly pandemic.
Animal Estates 6.0: Utrecht Fritz Haeg focuses on five species that may be accommodated in the human-dominated urban environment of Utrecht with modest, manmade “estates.”
Travel Stories A collaborative project by Pia Rönicke and Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak about how stories are shared, heard and retold.
The Speculative Diagram An exhibition of diagrams by Stephen Willats that offer new philosophical, social and ideological visions of social relationships.
Forms of Inquiry An exhibition that brings together new works by a range of international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation.
Hidden Curriculum With others, Annette Krauss looks at unrecognized and unintended knowledge, values and beliefs that are part of the learning process in schools.
What’s left to its own devices (On reclamation) An exhibition speculative displacement machines and functional proposals by Dave Hullfish Bailey that ask basic questions about public space.
Undecided Utopias Pages focuses on when design becomes the sphere of exploitation and misrecognition, and how the place becomes subjected by design.
To Live Outside the Law You Must be Honest Video works by Nicoline van Harskamp which investigate government systems and interpretations of freedom.
Camp for Oppositional Architecture 2006 An Architektur looks for possible ways of resistance within the field of architecture and planning.
Maurits Script Wendelien van Oldenborgh uses alternative modes of film production to explore Dutch colonial history of Brazil.
The Power and Illumination Project Annika Lundgren uses kinetic energy generated by spinning bikes to partially power Casco’s office.
Story Space on Gift Economies Workshops, discussion and newspaper focused on alternative economic systems and led by Swop Network.
What do you Look Like? A Crypto Demonic Mystery An exhibition and performance by Judith Hopt that questions how we perceive bodies.
Re-thinking Engagement Four workshops by artists and designers whose practice is characterized by interdisciplinarity and engagement.
Publish and be Damned An exhibition and event series that examine experimental approaches to the making and distributing work of artists outside the commercial mainstream.
Designing Truth Casco presents the new production: DESIGNING TRUTH with guest of Hinrich Sachs: Dr. Ansgar Philippsen, structural biologist
UTO: The Technology of Tears A “bricolage” approach to research, archiving, design and performance, binding a diversity of mediums.
Aural Contract: The Whole Truth An exhibition project that examines the contemporary politics of listening and focuses on the role of the voice in law.
INLAND Examines the role of territories, geopolitics, culture and identity in the relationship between the city and the countryside today.
Practice International Collaborates with artists who establish structures and invent methods to make work, radicalize their immediate locality, and connect internationally.
The Common Sense Phase 1 The work by Melanie Gilligan takes the form of a sci-fi mini-series which looks at how we are shaped by technological advancements within capitalism.
In the Year of the Quiet Sun The Otolith Group’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands configures moments from the grand project of mid-twentieth century Pan-Africanism.
Casco Coffee Communication A coffee mobile departing from its homebase Casco to different areas of Utrecht to inform its residents and passers-by about Casco’s activities.
Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons An institute – a platform, structure, practice – that works for a vision of art and the commons and better ways of living together.
The Library of Unread Books A living reference library that traces the perimeters of excess knowledge. By making unread books accessible the library works to create a commons.
Age Lines A site for and sense of age relations where fragility, dependency, and transmission are foregrounded.
Parasite Lottery A pilot collective lottery system for art organizations in the Netherlands and their communities.
We Are The Time Machines: time and tools for commoning An exhibition and study program to generate “tools” for practicing the commons.
Evolved in shared relationships & Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) Solo exhibition by artist Alma Heikkilä and a collective exhibition for the eponymous project running at the Terwijde farmhouse
Two Rubatos & Footnotes on Equality An experimental sound-focused solo exhibition by Terre Thaemlitz and a collective exhibition of art and research by members of GRACE with Cookies.
Het is of de stenen spreken (silence is a commons) Four solo shows of the distinguished artistic practices and languages by Babi Badalov, Ansuya Blom, Ama Josephine Budge, and Mire Lee.
The Outsiders An artist collective exploring agricultural heritage in urban areas to cultivate knowledge and skills for an ecological, resilient life.
Commons • Art A forthcoming platform that facilitates and supports the creative and social caretaking of art as a way of generating new commons.
Assembly for commoning art institutions An annual get-together for commoning art institutions through collective (un)learning, workshops and action plans.
C4R (Cultures for Resilience) A European level cooperation project of workshops, residencies, and publishing for researching and promoting resilient cultural practices and tools.
Common Grounds A process of commoning the main site and building in Utrecht’s Museum Quarters through different modes of sharing the space, its use values & stories.
