The new BAK website is a work in progress. Usufructuaries of earth: a project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)
The new BAK website is a work in progress. Usufructuaries of earth: a project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)
Program
Usufructuaries of earth
A project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
![Design: Sean van den Steenhoven](/files/t/prg.489.screenshot_20240408_at_133203.webp)
Program
Chapter one, exhibition
The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of shared usership.
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
![prg.493.8a4b26300aa44bc7a5180c46b5cfb748.webp](/files/t/prg.493.8a4b26300aa44bc7a5180c46b5cfb748.webp)
Program
Chapter two, reading groups and online publication
The reading groups are held in the lead-up to the convention to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct.
8 April 2024
2 June 2024
![prg.494.uoe_chapter_two1_square.webp](/files/t/prg.494.uoe_chapter_two1_square.webp)
Program
Chapter three, convention
The convention in the context of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day gathering that summons different practices of non-expropriative userships in relation to land, housing, social reproduction, agriculture, and knowledge.
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
![prg.495.uoe_chapter3_square1.webp](/files/t/prg.495.uoe_chapter3_square1.webp)
Prospections
Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader
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 research and publishing resource.
7 April 2024
![psp.86.uoe_chapter_two2_square.webp](/files/t/psp.86.uoe_chapter_two2_square.webp)
Prospections
7 April 2024
![Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afriad of Ideolog](/files/t/psp.84.screenshot_20240122_at_180037.webp)
Prospections
19 March 2024
![Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideolog](/files/t/psp.63.screenshot_20240403_at_215421.webp)
Prospections
8 April 2024
![Marwa Arsanios, Chart for the Usership o](/files/t/psp.88.chart_for_the_usership_of_land.webp)
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