Learning

10-12 February 2009

What is the subject at hand?

Tuesday 10 February, 11.00–12.45 hrs
Introduction to “Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions”: What is the subject at hand? 

Thursday 12 February, 15.15–17.00 hrs
Guided tour BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht

Required Reading:
-Simon Sheikh, “Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator,” in Curating Subjects, ed. Paul O’Neill (London: Open Editions, 2007), pp. 174–185
-Charles Esche, “Modest proposals or why ‘the choice is limited to how the wealth is to be squandered’’” (originally published in the 2nd Berlin Biennale catalogue, Cologne: Oktagon, 2001)

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8 March, 19.00–7 March, 22.00 2024

Yallah Sabaya

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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