Prospections

The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on Prospections is a slow-growing reader that undergirds the project as an usufructuary of knowledges, turning the project’s research into a collective resource. The reader will emerge, to begin with, as a constellation of archival texts. These are the texts that are read through a federated structure of reading groups in Amman, Berlin, and Rotterdam. These reading groups are held in the lead-up to the Usufructuaries of earth convention on 24–25 May 2024 to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct that are then further unpacked during the working groups and public program of the convention. The discussions that emerge out of the reading groups mingle with the ideas of the exhibition and public program, and may generate newly commissioned texts, interviews, annotations, and artistic contributions also published as part of this reader-in-the-making.  Please stay tuned for the compilation of reading, listening, and visual material here.