Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons

On 25 and 26 October 2019 Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons organized the second Assembly for commoning art institutions entitled "Our House is on Fire." In the keynote "Enduring Climate Change" members of the Arts Collaboratory presented a number of case studies related to the food and climate change working group, which consists of: Cràter Invertido: Sari Dennise; Kiosko: Sina Ribak;...

On 25 and 26 October 2019 Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons organized the second Assembly for commoning art institutions entitled "Our House is on Fire." The first keynote in the program was given by speculative writer, artist, pleasure activist Ama Josephine Budge, entitled “Whose House? Whose Tools? Whose Future?” Following Casco’s inaugural annual Assembly in 2018, "Our House is on F...

On 25 and 26 October 2019 Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons organized the second Assembly for commoning art institutions entitled "Our House is on Fire." In this recording part of the editorial committee - Thomas de Groot, Clementine Edwards, Teresa Borasino - introduces the Climate Justice Code. Following Casco’s inaugural annual Assembly in 2018, "Our House is on Fire" turned our atte...

On 25 and 26 October 2019 Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons organized the second Assembly for commoning art institutions entitled "Our House is on Fire." Casco Art Institute director Binna Choi and deputy director introduce the program of the two days. Following Casco’s inaugural annual Assembly in 2018, "Our House is on Fire" turned our attention to developing a climate justice code fo...

Book Situation “Toilet (T)Issues #3: The Elephant in the Room (and Different Ways to Deal with it)” with Liz Allan, Ying Que, Ferdiansyah Thajib and Yolande van der Heide Liz Allan is an editor, artist, and writer, whose words extend to poetry, subtitles, and by way of voice. She is a member of the art collective AtCS, and is most recently co-constructing a queer space called Tender Center Rotterd...

Session 7: Unlearning Future 
with Kate Rich Agenda setting, collective pot experiment This final session of the Assembly addressed the “now” as holding the future. It looked into the very room of the Assembly by asking what sort of commons resources we have as participants and how we can distribute them. That is, we proposed an experiment in forming a collective pot! This session entailed collect...

Session 4: Unlearning Movement with Arts Collaboratory (Al Ma’mal Foundation: Aline Khoury; Más Arte Más Acción: Ana Garzón Sabogal; and Casco Art Institute: Yolande van der Heide) in conversation with Another Roadmap for Arts Education: Sofía Olascoaga and Lineo Segoete Engaging with the question of how to build alliances between artistic and educational practices and institutions in order to mak...

Content Warning: This presentation discusses sexual abuse and violence as experienced by domestic workers in the Netherlands. Book Situation “Toilet Tissues #2: Against All Odds: Migrant Domestic Labor Struggle and Forms of Organizing” with Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU): Faisol Iskandar, Erminah Zaenah Faisol Iskandar is president of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU).

Session 3: Unlearning Modern-colonial Institutions, and Book Situation “Sites For Unlearning in the Museum” with Nancy Jouwe In this especially designed boat tour through the city center of Utrecht, we shared a mostly untold part of local history: Utrecht’s connectedness to Dutch colonial history and slavery. Utrecht is usually not mentioned in relation to Dutch colonial history. But when we start...

Session 2: Unlearning Maintenance with Hodan Warsame and Ayesha Ghanchi Cultural institutions are – almost by definition – designed in a rigid, hierarchical way. The labor division within them has a knack for persisting and reproducing itself, and can be one of the things standing in the way of radical change towards justice. In this workshop we will deconstruct what we call physical, organization...

Book Situation “Toilet Tissues #1: Toilet Tissue and Other Formless Organizational Matters” with Staci Bu Shea, Svenja Engels and Mafalda Gomes Staci Bu Shea is curator at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. Casco Art Institute is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Mafalda Gomes is a project manager in the field of sustainability and zero-wa...

Book situation “Work and Well-being” with Platform BK: Joram Kraaijeveld Joram Kraaijeveld is a curator, teacher, and writer. Kraaijeveld is director at Platform BK, a Dutch artist association that operates as an active think tank for the arts.

Session 5: Unlearning Art Economy with Centre for Plausible Economies: Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder, and the case studies including: • The Asociación de Arte Útil: Gemma Medina and Christiane Berndes • Company Drinks: Kathrin Böhm • Casco Art Institute with Arts Collaboratory: Binna Choi and Erik Uitenbogaard • Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) with Arts Collaboratory: Kabelo Malatsie....

Introduction of the Assembly and book launch with Annette Krauss, Binna Choi, Yolande van der Heide Binna Choi is director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons since 2008. Casco Art Institute is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Yolande van der Heide is deputy director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she began as an...

Yu-Lan van Alphen is developer and manager of the Dutch culture program at DOEN Foundation: the Bank Giro Loterij Fonds DOEN is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Gertrude Flentge is developer and manager of the international culture and media program at DOEN Foundation. DOEN is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective gov...

"We Are Parasites" questions how some right-wing politicians label artists as parasites, exploring how we are all parasites, as we are all, in fact, interdependent. Furthermore, the song mentions the 2011 letter "More Than Quality", written by Halbe Zijlstra - then the Dutch state secretary of culture - explaining his vision for cultural funding policy. In the song, it is argued that to ask for mo...

"Storm Over Cut" is about the diverse strategies that artists have employed to cope with budget cuts. The first verse presents those who are actively fighting policy, either through protest or through negotiations, The second shows how some are dealing with the situation by adapting, for instance by adopting entrepreneurial newspeak. Finally, in the third verse, there is "Parasite Lottery" itself...

Inspired by the eponymous 2002 Bowie song, as well as by the now-popular way of describing the long-lasting, detrimental effects of the 2012 budget cuts in the Netherlands, "Slow Burn" narrates the experience of someone affected by these cuts: restless, precarious, and feeling like a firefly caught up in a cobweb. The song imagines the period from 2013 - when the impact of the austerity measures f...

Pull The Plug is the starting point for Parasite Lottery, and was written from the perspective of the politicians and policy makers that are cutting cultural budgets. As it so often is, the argument of Pull The Plug is mainly pragmatic: in times of crisis and exigency, it argues, there is no room for arts and culture, and the disgruntlement of those who think differently cannot change a thing abou...

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain

Forum IV: Commoning Aesthetics with Annie Fletcher, Maria Lind, Stavros Stavrides, Marina Vishmidt, and Arseny Zhilyaev, organized by Casco & Open! Platform for Art, Culture, and the Public Domain