Toward being together otherwise
Now open: Trainings for the Not-Yet (14 Sep 2019–12 Jan 2020)

Program

Exhibition Project

14 September 2019–12 January 2020

Together with artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents the project Trainings for the Not-Yet, starting September 2019. The project consists of an exhibition as a series of “community learnings,” performative workshops, artworks, learning objects, and conversations. In the framework of this project, intensive collaborations with (inter)national artists, theorists, and activists take place, as well as collaborations with initiatives and communities based (mainly) in Utrecht.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Discursive

18 September–22 December 2019

Training Program Trainings for the Not-Yet

I. 19–22.09. 2019. Proscenium–Performing Institutions
Training with Adelita Husni-Bey | Tickets
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II. 26–28.09. 2019. Unforgetting & Reconnecting: Story Mapping
Training with Nancy Jouwe en/and Denise Valentine | Tickets
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III. 2–6.10. 2019. Mad About Study
Training with Joy Mariama Smith | Tickets
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IV. 9–13.10. 2019. Each Step Yields Depth
Training with Chloë Bass
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V. 9 & 11.2019. More than Friends
Training with Staci Bu Shea | Tickets
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VI. 10.10.2019. Say YES to Consent
Training with Laced-Up Project | Tickets
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VII. 12.10 2019. Care, Accountability, and Relation
Training with Whitney Stark | Tickets
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VIII. 16–20.10. 2019. Decommodifying Housing: How to Get There?
Training with Homebaked Community Land Trust (CLT) (Britt Jürgensen and Marianne Heaslip), De Nieuwe Meent (Selçuk Balamir), de Kasko (Joska Ottjes), Refugee Collective We Are Here, Elke Uitentuis, Ethel Baraona Pohl, and Irene Calabuch Mirón | Tickets
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IX. 16–20.10. 2019. The Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op Autumn School
Training with Fran Ilich | Tickets
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X. 22–26.10.2019. Open Access: Organizing Accessibility from the Grassroots
Training with Carmen Papalia |Tickets
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XI. 29–31.10 2019 & 3.11.2019. A Week By & For: Designing Inclusive Spaces.
Training with De Voorkamer (Pim van der Mijl en/and Shay Raviv) | Tickets
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XII. 1–2.11. 2019. Voices of New Women
Training with New Women Connectors | Tickets
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XIII. 6–9.11. 2019. (New) Formats of Care in Times of Violence
Training with Patricia Kaersenhout
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XIV. 13–17.11.2019 . Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
Trainings, lectures, and panel discussions, co-convened with Sven Lütticken | Tickets
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XV. 20–23.11. 2019. Community Futurisms
Training with Black Quantum Futurism
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XVI. 27.11–1.12. 2019. An investigation into collective work-processes for self-determination
Training with Hamada al-Joumah and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
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XVII. 27.11–1.12. 2019
QFCPSSBBXOXO:
Queer and Feminist
Physical and Critical
Self-Defense and Support
Bloc of Bodies
Training with a subdivision of To Be Determined (Clara Balaguer and Gabriel Fontana)
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XVIII. 4–5.12. 2019. Disrupting Neoliberal Urban Governance: New Organizational Forms for the Immediate Future
Training with Urban Front (David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán)
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XIX. 6–7.12. 2019. Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
Symposium with Maria Hlavajova, Laura Raicovich, and others
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XX. 11–15.12.2019. Exploring Untimely Togetherness
Training with Beatrice Catanzaro, Kolar Aparna, en/and Mehbratu Efrem Gebreab
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XXI. 11–15.12.2019. Training for the Underwater(ed) Land
Training with QANAT
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XXII. 18–22.12. 2019. Kitchen Atlases
Training with Bakudapan Food Study Group

Training

22-26 October 2019

Training X: Open Access: Organizing Accessibility from the Grassroots

Training with Carmen Papalia: dialogue, embodied movement, non-visual mapping, creative writing, exercising non-visual senses, and sign and banner making

13-17 November 2019

Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars

Een week vol trainingen, lezingen en panels met als doel om de huidige culture wars te begrijpen en in actie te komen. Georganiseerd in samenwerking met Sven Lütticken.

Fellowship

Fellow 2019/2020

Joy Mariama Smith

Performance, installation, and movement artist and educator Joy Mariama Smith’s work focuses on issues related to visibility, projected identities, and self-representation in different contexts, and investigates the interplay between the body and its cultural, social, and physical environment. In their* dance, performances, and installations, they create spaces in which the distinction between spectator and participant […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Mitchell Esajas

Anthropologist, curator, and social entrepreneur Mitchell Esajas is involved in various community projects in education, employment, diversity, and sustainability and is Co-Founder and Chairman of New Urban Collective, a network for students and young professionals from diverse backgrounds with a focus on the Surinamese, Caribbean, and African diaspora. Having studied Business Studies and Anthropology at […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Reem Shilleh

Researcher, curator, editor, and artist Reem Shilleh’s practice is informed by a long research project on militant and revolutionary image practices in Palestine, its diaspora, and solidarity network. Some of her recent projects are the curated film program The Space Between: The Invocation, MMAG Foundation, Amman, 2019; the research exhibition series Desires into Fossils: Monuments […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Grant Watson

Research curator and writer Grant Watson’s research and curatorial project How We Behave (2012–ongoing) explores queer-ascesis, as well as left- and ecopolitics through filmed interviews. His work has been shown at Extra City, Antwerp, 2017; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2017; State of Concept, Athens, 2016; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 2015; The Showroom, London, 2015; and If I […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Diana McCarty

Independent media producer and feminist media activist Diana McCarty is a founding editor of reboot.fm, the award winning free artists’ radio in Berlin; a co-founder of the radio networks Radia Network (radia.fm) and 24/3 FM Radio Network Berlin; and of the FACES (faces-I) online community for women, among other initiatives. She co-initiated the exhibition Nervous […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Urok Shirhan

Visual artist Urok Shirhan’s work explores the politics of image, sound, and speech in relation to (national) identity. Working mainly with video, performance, and writing, her projects are often entangled with found materials and autobiographic narratives. Her latest body of research considers questions of the voice as well as the tongue in relation to language, […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Katia Krupennikova

Curator and critic Katia Krupennikova is a member of the Bergen Assembly, a docent at HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, and a part of the curatorial team at V-A-C Foundation, Moscow. Through her projects, Krupennikova attempts to transform existing social and political constructs into critical artistic models within which existing relations can be mimicked, […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Oleksiy Radynski

Filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski uses documentary film practice to examine the relationship between fact and fiction. His films have received a number of awards at film festivals. They have been screened and he has presented at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2019, 2018, and 2015; Stroom, Den Haag, The Hague, 2019; e-flux, […]

Fellow 2019/2020

David Muñoz Alcántara

Artist, architect, and researcher David Muñoz Alcántara’s inquiry deals with nomadism of thought and aesthetic praxis at the intersection of futurity and actuality. His recent work looks at militant poetics and radical critique through arts grounded in liberation struggles against class, gender, and racial enclosures. In practice, he produces contextually grounded installations often involving collective […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Mijke van der Drift

Writer, educator, and performer Mijke van der Drift uses ethics as a focal point in multi-disciplinary research about social transformation. Van der Drift teaches at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, has worked internationally on radical transfeminism, for instance at Pembe Hayat Kuirfest, Ankara, 2018; Schwules Museum, […]

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