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07/03/2024
Usufructuaries of earth


Usufructuaries of earth: exhibition audio tour

Usufructuaries of earth is the first comprehensive exhibition of Marwa Arsanios’s work in the Netherlands. 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, more-than-human userships. Here is an audio tour of the exhibition given by BAK convenor of research and publications Wietske Maas.

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In the context of Usufructuaries of earth, which calls for a relationship of usufruct with the earth—making “use” of its offers without exhaustion or greed—this interview between artist Marwa Arsanios and Grupo Semillas member Samanta Arango Orozco highlights Indigenous communities’ strategies that “entail ways to inhabit [their] territory without affecting it intensely and in ways that protect it . . .” Through traditional and intergenerational knowledge around the seeds and lands of the region, its people, and particularly, its women, have resisted very powerful groups and social actors—reconnecting, via generous seed-gifting, territories that had previously been separated by conflict.

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Usufructuaries of earth

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.

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