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BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Pauwstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands

 Discursive, Exhibition, Publication

11 January–01 March 2009

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht  

The Return of Religion and Other Myths

The Return of Religion and Other Myths is a large-scale multifaceted project, consisting of the exhibition The Art of Iconoclasm, a discourse program taking place in early 2009 titled On Post-Secularism, and the publication of a BAK Critical Reader on the subject in 2009. The project explores the popular assumption of the return of religion to the public sphere, contemporary politics, and the media in the West as a constitutive “myth.”

Exhibition

Exhibition
30.11.2008–01.03.2009
The Art of Iconoclasm

Lectures

Lecture program
11.01.–01.03.2009
On Post-Secularism

Lecture
11.01.2009
Mythic Narratives of Secularism and Religion

Publications

Book
The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook)
out of print

Reader
The Return of the Religion and other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
out of print

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Reading Group

Exhibition

07 March–02 June 2024

Usufructuaries of earth
Chapter 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.

Convention