Lecture
10 March 2015
In the lecture series Curating… Lectures from the exhibition maker’s practice, organized by the Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel and the Academy of Art and Design, Basel, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova discusses Art in the Face of Class Recompositions.
Exhibitionary
8 March, 19.00–7 March, 22.00 2024
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Reading Group
7 March 2024-Ongoing
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.
Exhibition
07 March–02 June 2024
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
24-25 May 2024
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.
