Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons launch day at Erfgoed
Join
us for the launch day of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons,
with “FAQs on the Commons & Art,” the opening of Casco’s Office
Gallery, and more!
On Saturday, 9 June 2018 from 15:00 to 22:00 hrs, we launch Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. The special two-part day begins at Casco’s headquarters (Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht) and continues with a dinner soirée at Terwijde farmhouse (Louis Armstrongboulevard 30/50*, by Utrecht Terwijde station).
With:
Contributors to “FAQs on the Commons & Art” roundtable and working sessions – Arts Collaboratory (Cráter Invertido, DOEN foundation), Michel Bauwens, The Black Archives, FILMIS: Filipino Migrants in Solidarity, Katherine Gibson, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union, Annette Krauss, Geert Lovink, Dorothé Lucassen, Massimiliano Mollona, Soheila Najand, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Vluchtmaat, and Aimée Zito Lema. Artists Falke Pisano and Riet Wijnen, for their redesign of Casco’s workspace, which now comprises an Office Gallery.
Graphic designer David Bennewith with Bram van den Berg, for the new visual identity of Casco.
Asia Komarova and Txell Blanco Diaz of The Outsiders Union; core contributors of Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) including artists Avan Omar, Merel Zwarts, and Patricia Jiménez López; and vegan chef Mari Pitkänen.
To join us in festivity, please RSVP to Rosa Paardenkooper at rosa@casco.art by Thursday, 31 May, and indicate if you will attend the dinner at Terwijde farmhouse. Please note that the event starts on time.
As an art institution, Casco has always been invested in the process of instituting and becoming-with, especially in dialogue with artists and other practitioners. This event, however, marks a significant point of transition for Casco that is manifested in its new name: Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. On Saturday, 9 June we will celebrate this moment together, while sharing with the public some of Casco’s work in progress.
Casco understands the commons as a verb and as an ongoing, if not slow, practice. In “working for the commons” then, Casco has been focusing both on the “front side” of the institution – namely, on programing, projects, and presentations – and on the reproductive aspects of instituting that happen mostly in the background – the team, the “ecosystem,” its working environment and infrastructure, the economies and common-pool resources, and ways to co-manage and share the commons. At the launch, the Casco team and extended team will discuss how they have been working, give an update on Casco’s new modus operandi, and present some of the initial outcomes from this new modality of work.
The day will be interwoven with conversations and working sessions on “FAQs on the Commons & Art.” Situating the commons in between the public and the private, Casco considers the commons as a practice and as a performative and interventionist concept that moves in tandem with practice. Therefore, the commons calls for constant questioning and dialogue around everything from its definitions to the how-to. The launch extends this ethos with generous contributions from active commoning practitioners from in and out of the field of art, all of whom form a part of the Casco ecosystem.
This launch day is also festive! The soirée will take place at Terwijde farmhouse, where the project Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) is located. Erfgoed is a first for the Center for Ecological (Un)learning, a long-term co-initiative by Casco and The Outsiders Union – of which the latter will give the public an animating tour of the emergent farmhouse activities, from soft infrastructures to its non-human inhabitants.
Schedule
15:00
Doors open at Casco
15:15 – 15:30
Welcome speech at the Casco Office Gallery
15:30 – 16:00
Introduction to the modus operandi of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons with the Casco team, Falke Pisano, Riet Wijnen, David Bennewith and Bram van den Berg at the Casco Office Gallery
16:00 – 16:30
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” roundtable on stage in the Casco courtyard
16:30 – 17:30
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” working sessions in and around the Casco building
17:30 – 18:00
Introduction to Terwijde farmhouse by The Outsiders Union in the Casco courtyard
18:00 – 19:00
Travel to and take tour of Terwijde farmhouse
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner at Terwijde farmhouse
20:00 – 21:00
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” harvesting at Terwijde farmhouse
21:00 onwards
Soirée continues
With the company of Bankra Bike System
On Saturday, 9 June 2018 from 15:00 to 22:00 hrs, we launch Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. The special two-part day begins at Casco’s headquarters (Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht) and continues with a dinner soirée at Terwijde farmhouse (Louis Armstrongboulevard 30/50*, by Utrecht Terwijde station).
With:
Contributors to “FAQs on the Commons & Art” roundtable and working sessions – Arts Collaboratory (Cráter Invertido, DOEN foundation), Michel Bauwens, The Black Archives, FILMIS: Filipino Migrants in Solidarity, Katherine Gibson, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union, Annette Krauss, Geert Lovink, Dorothé Lucassen, Massimiliano Mollona, Soheila Najand, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Vluchtmaat, and Aimée Zito Lema. Artists Falke Pisano and Riet Wijnen, for their redesign of Casco’s workspace, which now comprises an Office Gallery.
Graphic designer David Bennewith with Bram van den Berg, for the new visual identity of Casco.
Asia Komarova and Txell Blanco Diaz of The Outsiders Union; core contributors of Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) including artists Avan Omar, Merel Zwarts, and Patricia Jiménez López; and vegan chef Mari Pitkänen.
To join us in festivity, please RSVP to Rosa Paardenkooper at rosa@casco.art by Thursday, 31 May, and indicate if you will attend the dinner at Terwijde farmhouse. Please note that the event starts on time.
As an art institution, Casco has always been invested in the process of instituting and becoming-with, especially in dialogue with artists and other practitioners. This event, however, marks a significant point of transition for Casco that is manifested in its new name: Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. On Saturday, 9 June we will celebrate this moment together, while sharing with the public some of Casco’s work in progress.
Casco understands the commons as a verb and as an ongoing, if not slow, practice. In “working for the commons” then, Casco has been focusing both on the “front side” of the institution – namely, on programing, projects, and presentations – and on the reproductive aspects of instituting that happen mostly in the background – the team, the “ecosystem,” its working environment and infrastructure, the economies and common-pool resources, and ways to co-manage and share the commons. At the launch, the Casco team and extended team will discuss how they have been working, give an update on Casco’s new modus operandi, and present some of the initial outcomes from this new modality of work.
The day will be interwoven with conversations and working sessions on “FAQs on the Commons & Art.” Situating the commons in between the public and the private, Casco considers the commons as a practice and as a performative and interventionist concept that moves in tandem with practice. Therefore, the commons calls for constant questioning and dialogue around everything from its definitions to the how-to. The launch extends this ethos with generous contributions from active commoning practitioners from in and out of the field of art, all of whom form a part of the Casco ecosystem.
This launch day is also festive! The soirée will take place at Terwijde farmhouse, where the project Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) is located. Erfgoed is a first for the Center for Ecological (Un)learning, a long-term co-initiative by Casco and The Outsiders Union – of which the latter will give the public an animating tour of the emergent farmhouse activities, from soft infrastructures to its non-human inhabitants.
Schedule
15:00
Doors open at Casco
15:15 – 15:30
Welcome speech at the Casco Office Gallery
15:30 – 16:00
Introduction to the modus operandi of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons with the Casco team, Falke Pisano, Riet Wijnen, David Bennewith and Bram van den Berg at the Casco Office Gallery
16:00 – 16:30
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” roundtable on stage in the Casco courtyard
16:30 – 17:30
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” working sessions in and around the Casco building
17:30 – 18:00
Introduction to Terwijde farmhouse by The Outsiders Union in the Casco courtyard
18:00 – 19:00
Travel to and take tour of Terwijde farmhouse
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner at Terwijde farmhouse
20:00 – 21:00
“FAQs on the Commons & Art” harvesting at Terwijde farmhouse
21:00 onwards
Soirée continues
With the company of Bankra Bike System
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