07 March–02 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earth A project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024) Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
07 March–02 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earthChapter one: exhibition The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
7 March 2024-Ongoing Usufructuaries of earthChapter two: reading groups and online publication These reading groups are held in the lead-up to the convention to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct that are then further unpacked during the working groups and public program of the convention. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
24-25 May 2024 Usufructuaries of earthChapter three: convention The convention in the context of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day gathering that summons different practices of non-expropriative userships in relation to land, housing, social reproduction, agriculture, and knowledge. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
15/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back Pelşîn Tolhildan “We are in the siege of a nature that has been hurt, divided, defiled, poisoned, harmed, and made to bleed,” writes Pelşîn Tolhildan, member of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. Responding to a planetary ecology which has been manipulated and irreparably damaged by humankind, “Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back” gives animacy and agency to nature. It […]
07/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on Prospections is a slow-growing reader that undergirds the project as an usufructuary of knowledges, turning the project’s research into a collective resource. The reader will emerge, to begin with, as a constellation of archival texts. These are the texts that are read through a federated structure of reading groups in Amman, Berlin, and Rotterdam. These reading groups are held in the lead-up to the Usufructuaries of earth convention on 24–25 May 2024 to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct that are then further unpacked during the working groups and public program of the convention. The discussions that emerge out of the reading groups mingle with the ideas of the exhibition and public program, and may generate newly commissioned texts, interviews, annotations, and artistic contributions also published as part of this reader-in-the-making. Editorial
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice By Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, Rachael Rakes, +42
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent By Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Rosi Braidotti, +13
Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice) By Maria Hlavajova, Tom Holert, Hidde van Greuningen, +13
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989 By Nancy Adajania, Edit András, Athena Athanasiou, +76
Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art By Nancy Adajania, Ariella Azoulay, Amelia Barikin, +14
The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook) By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Marlies van Hak, +1