Learning

24-26 March 2009

The Political and Social Responsibilities of Public Art Institutions

Lectures and guided tour at MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen

Tuesday 24 March, 11.00–12.45 hrs
The Political and Social Responsibilities of Public Art Institutions

Thursday 26 March, 12.00–17.00 hrs
Lecture and guided tour MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.

Required Reading:
-Simon Sheikh, ‘The Trouble with Institutions, or Art and Its Publics’, in: Art and its Institutions, Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations, ed. Nina Möntmann (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005), pp. 142–149
-Annie Fletcher (ed.), Becoming Oneself (Utrecht: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, 2003)
-Charles Esche, ‘What’s the Point of Art Centres Anyway? – Possibility, Art and Democratic Deviance’ (available online here).

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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