Hito Steyerl


Hito Steyerl, Duty Free Art

Duty Free Art bestaat uit videodocumentatie van een vooraf opgenomen lezing van Steyerl, waarin de toename van vrijhandelszones en de opslag van kunst in zogenaamde freeports in verband wordt gebracht met de internationale kunstmarkt en met het Syrische Assad-regime. De kunstenaar maakt gebruik van WikiLeaks-documenten om te laten zien hoe het Louvre, het British Museum en de architect Rem Koolhaas betrokken zijn bij de voorbereidingen voor een nieuwe kunstinstelling in Syrië en ze reflecteert op de gecompliceerde relatie tussen nationaal museum en natiestaat.

15 februari 2023, 10.00-18.00

A series of practical publishing workshops hosted by an active squat and anarchist social center in Amsterdam and organized by the Bookbinding Studio of Sandberg Instituut/Rietveld Academy and Lila Athanasiadou. 

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4 februari 2023, 13.00-18.00

Using the sancocho (a pan-Latin American soup with no fixed recipe) as a tool for research and encounter, Mercado Lourdes (Bogotá, Colombia) will host and organize a series of field meals. These events activate and connect the multiple affects that have resulted from ongoing research with local producers into the biodiversity of the territory.  

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16 december 2022, 15.00-17.00



In all continents, people have built matriarchal cosmologies sustained by complex rituals. In the advent of main modern religions and after centuries of colonizing invasions, the goddesses of antiquity were suppressed by the patriarchal structures that consolidated our era. However, they found ways to speak to us in the language of patterns, melodies, and poems. This workshop uses the voice as a method to reveal the presence of goddesses. 



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27 januari, 18.30–29 januari, 21.00 2023

During these sessions—part of the bASIC aCTIVIST kITCHEN (b.a.k.) program in collaboration with Berend Bombarius, De Voorkamer and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst—we want to collectively explore the topic of setting up community kitchens. Different strategies, tools, methodologies, and contexts are explored to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the practices and theories of community kitchens.

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