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Performance

23-24 May 2023

Landing on Feathers (SPRING Performing Arts Festival)

In this performance, three caregivers and artists – Jija Sohn, Aleksandra Lemm and Nica Roses – share their vision on body-oriented caregiving through dance. Care constitutes relations between individuals in society as a necessary element in building a community. Landing on Feathers is a performance for those who are in need of care, and those who are hired to care. It is a performance where the audience can also experience the first steps in making their approach to care more conscious and attentive, even to strangers.

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Prospections

30/01/2023
Digital Discomfort

Execution

Critical Software Thing

Originating with the twelfth-century French term l’exécuteur du testament (the executor of the will), the term “execution” today finds itself entangled in myriad systems, such as linguistic systems, judiciary systems, computational systems, and systems of memory—all of which are touched upon in this text (originally published as an entry in The Posthuman Glossary [2028]) by Critical Software Thing (CST)). Be it by guillotine or CPU, as a realization of a decreed sentence, CST suggest that “execution” always relates to the now, “to an actualization, a presence which is always already over.” Highlighting the micro-instructions, micro-operations, and micro-temporality of systems executions, CST point toward the liveness inherent in them. Without succumbing to the seeming seamlessness of computation—harkening to the Cell for Digital Discomfort’s suggestion to embrace a seamful approach to technology—and with an awareness for the executive power of code, CST propose that code itself to be regarded as but “a partial instruction within a wider, dynamic ecology of many executing systems.”

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18/12/2022
Tactical Solidarities

Jose Maria Sison (1939–2022)

It is with great sadness to learn that on 16 December 2022 Professor Jose Maria Sison passed away. Having lived in exile in Utrecht, Professor Sison taught at the first New World Academy in 2013, Towards a People’s Culture, which we convened together with artist Jonas Staal in 2013. Professor Sison’s learnings on solidarity, friendship, resilience, and joy of the world in spite of its many hardships and struggles, will continue resonate strongly. Rest in power.

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Publications

Year 2021

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice

By Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, Rachael Rakes, +42

Year 2020

Deserting from the Culture Wars

By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Bini Adamczak, +11

Year 2019

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

By Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Rosi Braidotti, +13

Year 2017

Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice)

By Maria Hlavajova, Tom Holert, Hidde van Greuningen, +13

Year 2016

FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989

By Nancy Adajania, Edit András, Athena Athanasiou, +76

Year 2015

Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

By Nancy Adajania, Ariella Azoulay, Amelia Barikin, +14

Year 2010

The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook)

By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Marlies van Hak, +1

Year 2004

Now What? Artists Write!

By Mark Kremer, Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher

Year 2003

Germaine Kruip, A Play To Stop to Add A Moment

By Maria Hlavajova, Germaine Kruip

Year 2002

Becoming Oneself

By Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher, Nicolas Bourriaud, +7

Year 2001

Common Ground

By Maria Hlavajova, Krijn de Koning, André van Bergen, +5

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