Calendar, Dec 2019
#TFTNY 21 - Training for the Underwater(ed) Land with Qanat
, Dec 2019
The twenty-first training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with QANAT (Abdellah Hassak, Amine Lahrach, Edouard Sors, Francesca Masoero, George Bajalia, Jérôme Giller, Louisa Aarrass, Noureddine Ezarraf, and Sara Frikech), and takes place on 11–15 December 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday). This training focuses on artistic interventions, participative research, and discussions aimed at building a political and poetical map of water in its entanglement with the formation of landscapes and worldviews
Aman Iman, Mni Wiconi, Water is Life. Through multiple and diverse struggles around water, from Imider in Morocco to Standing Rock in the United States, forms of the otherwise emerge across connected contexts to declare: “Water is Life”.
This training renders the not-yet through the politics and poetics of water, connecting the realities of Morocco and the Netherlands by rethinking what commons mean contextually. It imagines how structures and relations of power shape the form, function, and functioning of water between and beyond the urban. It also recalls (daily) gestures of solidarity with resources in common and resistance against acts of enclosures as they exist on the ground. Training for the Underwater(ed) Land embarks on a collective, participatory, and transdisciplinary exploration of water, its infrastructures, ecologies, economies, and cosmologies, focusing on BAK’s immediate surroundings and its wider setting of Utrecht as a way to engage with the spatial configurations and social transformations of the city. If the present and persistent not-yet of Morocco is the undernourishing of its already scarce water resources, and that of the Netherlands is the imminent threat of submergence, QANAT proposes treating them in common, as entangled ecologies. It also asks of creative and cultural practitioners: How can we sustain the memories, imaginations, and desires emergent in waters’ worlds?
When: 11-15 December 2019 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Daily, 14–18 hrs, followed on weekdays by dinner at 18 hrs and preceded on Saturday by lunch at 13 hrs in the Basic Activist Kitchen.
On Sunday 15 December the training week will culminate in a public event consisting of a dinner 18 – 19 hrs followed by a lecture by George Bajalia (QANAT) 19 – 20 hr. This public event is free for training participants.
Participation:
This is a five-day training. It is possible to join on individual days, although attending the training in its entirety is encouraged.
Language: English
Tickets (via Eventbrite):
Individual days: €10 normal/€7.50 student discount
Combi ticket (five days): €40 normal/€30 student discount
Tickets include a daily meal at the Basic Activist Kitchen.
Free places:
For each training, BAK provides a few free places for those who would otherwise not be able to attend. To apply, please send a short explanation (max. 120 words) to olga@bakonline.org, at least four days prior to the training. (First come, first serve).
Aman Iman, Mni Wiconi, Water is Life. Through multiple and diverse struggles around water, from Imider in Morocco to Standing Rock in the United States, forms of the otherwise emerge across connected contexts to declare: “Water is Life”.
This training renders the not-yet through the politics and poetics of water, connecting the realities of Morocco and the Netherlands by rethinking what commons mean contextually. It imagines how structures and relations of power shape the form, function, and functioning of water between and beyond the urban. It also recalls (daily) gestures of solidarity with resources in common and resistance against acts of enclosures as they exist on the ground. Training for the Underwater(ed) Land embarks on a collective, participatory, and transdisciplinary exploration of water, its infrastructures, ecologies, economies, and cosmologies, focusing on BAK’s immediate surroundings and its wider setting of Utrecht as a way to engage with the spatial configurations and social transformations of the city. If the present and persistent not-yet of Morocco is the undernourishing of its already scarce water resources, and that of the Netherlands is the imminent threat of submergence, QANAT proposes treating them in common, as entangled ecologies. It also asks of creative and cultural practitioners: How can we sustain the memories, imaginations, and desires emergent in waters’ worlds?
When: 11-15 December 2019 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Daily, 14–18 hrs, followed on weekdays by dinner at 18 hrs and preceded on Saturday by lunch at 13 hrs in the Basic Activist Kitchen.
On Sunday 15 December the training week will culminate in a public event consisting of a dinner 18 – 19 hrs followed by a lecture by George Bajalia (QANAT) 19 – 20 hr. This public event is free for training participants.
Participation:
This is a five-day training. It is possible to join on individual days, although attending the training in its entirety is encouraged.
Language: English
Tickets (via Eventbrite):
Individual days: €10 normal/€7.50 student discount
Combi ticket (five days): €40 normal/€30 student discount
Tickets include a daily meal at the Basic Activist Kitchen.
Free places:
For each training, BAK provides a few free places for those who would otherwise not be able to attend. To apply, please send a short explanation (max. 120 words) to olga@bakonline.org, at least four days prior to the training. (First come, first serve).
- Sep '23The Schadow of the Moon
- Sep '23Festive closure It's OK... commoning uncertainties
- Sep '23It's OK...The Schadow of the Moon
- Sep '23It's OK... Circle 7: State of The Arts #2
- Sep '23It's OK... Circle 7: State of The Arts #1
- Sep '23It’s OK… Doubt-circle #7
- Sep '23It's OK... Circle 6: Calibrating Intimacies #2
- Aug '23It's OK... Cirkel 6: Calibrating Intimacies #1
- Aug '23It's OK... Cirkel 5: Not in Your Box #2
- Aug '23It's OK... Cirkel 5: Not in Your Box #1
- Aug '23It’s OK… Doubt-circle #6
- Jul '23It's OK... Cirkel 4: Roots in the Oude Kerk #2
- Jul '23It's OK... Cirkel 4: Roots in the Oude Kerk #1
- Jul '23It's OK... Twijfel-cirkel #4
- Jul '23It's OK... Cirkel 3 #2: Promissory Notes
- Jul '23It's OK... Cirkel 3: Rituals in space-making #1
- Jun '23It's OK... Twijfel-cirkel #3
- Jun '23It's OK... Cirkel 2: No One Will Say My Name For Me, No One Will Do My Job For Me #2
- Jun '23It's OK...Circle 2: No One Will Say My Name For Me, No One Will Do My Job For Me #1
- Jun '23It's OK... Cirkel 1: Tanaqush: The Chiselling of Collectivity #2
- Jun '23Artist Talk: Amsterdam Art Week
- Jun '23It's OK... Cirkel 1: Tanaqush: The Chiselling of Collectivity #1
- May '23It's OK... Twijfel-cirkel #1
- May '23It's OK...commoning uncertainties (Celebratory Start)
- Apr '23UPS: Ultradependent Public School - Trainings
- Feb '23TOWARD THE NOT YET: ART AS PUBLIC PRACTICE
- Jul '22Community Wellbeing Collective (C.W.C.) present 'Watch this Space' at Edinburgh Art Festival
- Jul '22EAF Opening Keynote Lecture
- Jul '22COMMONING CURATORIAL AND ARTISTIC EDUCATION #10
- Jun '22Book launch 'Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice' at Hopscotch Reading Room
- Apr '22Workshop at Bureau Ruimtekoers
- Mar '22Constellations ° Assemblies Online Event Programme
- Feb '22Radio Paleis Maashaven #2, Harboring the Social - On Sculptures Internationally and the Messiness of Public Practice
- Sep '21Public Faculty no.14 What are you invested in?
- Sep '21Current - SYMPOSIUM: Art and urban space – in assembly
- Sep '21Current - BOOK LAUNCH – TOWARD THE NOT-YET: ART AS PUBLIC PRACTICE
- Jul '21WHAT’S COOKING?
- Jun '21Situated Knowledges Conference
- Mar '21Soft launch 'Training for the Not-Yet - a collective online publishing platform'
- Feb '21'A Homebaked kinda of day'
- Nov '20workshop and lecture at Making Matters Symposium
- Nov '20AfA Masterclass Series: Institutional Collapse
- Nov '20TRANSITION: The Already Not-Yet – Becoming Collective
- Sep '20Z-FILES #28: WATERWERKEN
- Jun '20Qanat Cura
- May '20Wider Perspectives #6
- May '20Training for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the Making
- May '20A Call for New Organizational and Collective Forms After COVID19
- Apr '20Practicing Tactical Solidarities: A Roundtable on Mutual Aid, Emergency, and Continuous Care
- Jan '20Trainings for the Not-Yet (14 Sep 2019–12 Jan 2020)
- Dec '19#TFTNY - Closing dinner with Bakudapan Food Study Group
- Dec '19#TFTNY 22 - Kitchen Atlases Training with Bakudapan
- Dec '19#TFTNY - International Migrant Day: a walk by the Basic Activist Kitchen
- Dec '19#TFTNY 20 - Exploring Untimely Togetherness Training with Beatrice Catanzaro
- Dec '19#TFTNY 21 - Training for the Underwater(ed) Land with Qanat
- Dec '19#TFTNY 19 - Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise Training and symposium with Maria Hlavajova and Laura Raicovich
- Dec '19#TFTNY 18 - Disrupting Neoliberal Urban Governance: New Organizational Forms for the Immediate Future Training with Urban Front (David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán)
- Nov '19#TFTNY 16 - An investigation into collective work-processes for self-determination Training with Hamada al-Joumah and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
- Nov '19#TFTNY 17 - 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)
- Nov '19#TFTNY 15 - Community Futurisms Training with Black Quantum Futurism
- Nov '19#TFTNY 14 - Propositions #9: Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars Trainings, lectures, and panel discussions, co-convened with Sven Lütticken
- Nov '19#TFTNY 13 - (New) Formats of Care in Times of Violence
- Nov '19Training for the Not-Yet lecture - Oslo
- Nov '19#TFTNY 12 - Voices of New Women
- Oct '19#TFTNY 11 - A Week By & For: Designing Inclusive Spaces
- Oct '19#TFTNY 10 - Open Access: Organizing Accessibility from the Grassroots
- Oct '19#TFTNY 8 - Decommodifying Housing: How to Get There?
- Oct '19#TFTNY 9 - The Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op Autumn School Training with Fran Ilich
- Oct '19#TFTNY 7 - Care, Accountability, and Relation Training with Whitney Stark
- Oct '19#TFTNY 6 - Say YES to Consent Training with Laced-Up Project
- Oct '19#TFTNY 4 - Each Step Yields Depth Training with Chloë Bass
- Oct '19#TFTNY 5 - More than Friends Training with Staci Bu Shea
- Oct '19#TFTNY 3 - Mad About Study Training with Joy Mariama Smith
- Sep '19#TFTNY 2 - Unforgetting & Reconnecting: Story Mapping Training with Nancy Jouwe en/and Denise Valentine
- Sep '19#TFTNY 1 - Proscenium–Performing Institutions Training with Adelita Husni-Bey
- Jun '19Propositions #8: I Wanna Be Adored (the Non-Fascist Remix)
- Jun '19Yallah Sabaya
- Jun '19Public Faculty no. 13
- May '19With For About: Art & Democracy
- May '19Symposium at Hospitalhof Stuttgart - 24-hour opening event
- Apr '19Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
- Mar '19ON COMMON[ING] VISIONS __ Meet the Neighbours / QANAT symposium
- Mar '19Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women
- Feb '19“On Belongings and the Politics of Relation” Lecture at Harvard University
- Jan '19Workshop at E-flux journal and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art present “Exile”
- Dec '18Public lecture at Fashion held in Common
- Nov '18Lecture at Hardcore This-That (WdKA Social Practices)
- Oct '18BAK Fellowship 2018/2019
- Sep '18HNI, Thursday Night Workshop - Radicalizing the local
- Sep '18TALK with Nato Thompson: Culture as Weapon
- Sep '18Valletta Curatorial School
- Jul '18'Beyond Anthropocene' Banff Research in Culture (BRiC)
- Jul '18Floating University Berlin workshop
- May '18Speaking at Revisiting Black Mountain: Cross-discinplinary Experiments and Their Potential For Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)
- Feb '18Toward Sanctuary Summits
- Sep '17Speaking at Does Art Have Users?
- Sep '17It runs in the Neighbourhood shown in KØS Copenhagen
- Jul '17Philadelphia Assembled moves from the city to the museum
- Sep '16WHAT CAN GAMES TELL US ABOUT THE SERIOUS THINGS IN LIFE? SEE FREE PLAY
- Sep '16Speaker at MUSEUM AS SCORE
- Jun '16Social Harbor Workshop - IABR the Next Economy
- Jun '16Projects A-E: Celebrating the Art + Social Justice Working Group
- Apr '15Speaker at Cooperative Cities
- Dec '14RESISTANCE & RESIGNATION
- Jun '14Lunch talk at Sundown Schoolhouse
- May '14Panel Urban Unions in Creative Alternatives to Capitalism Conference
- Apr '14The Value of Nothing (group exhibition at TENT)
- Mar '14Panel Global communities and critical citizenship: Citizenship and artists’ practice
- Jan '14Lecture at DISPOSITIFS POST- | S+W+I
- Sep '13Speaker at Social Design - Public Action
- Jun '13Public Faculty no. 7
- May '13Lecture at B-open symposium in Bergen
- May '13Presenting at Social Justice and The City conference
- May '13Participant in MOMA's Contemporary Art Forum
- Apr '13Lecture at IHME festival Helsinki
- Feb '13Lecture at 'The Brixton Exchange'
- Jan '13Lecture and guest teacher at the Design Academy Eindhoven
- Jan '13Lecture and workshop at Post-Graduate programme in Curating
- Jan '13Lezing in de cyclus 'De stad is niet van gisteren'
- Nov '12Socially Engaged Art Practice Retreat
- Nov '122012 Curry Stone Design Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture
- Nov '12Lecture for program Urban Ecologies at New School
- Nov '12Lecture at 'Art Questions',12th ELIA Biennial Conference in Vienna
- Nov '12Workshop 'City (Re)Searches' in Cork
- Nov '12Lecture and workshop at 'Communities of _________'.
- Oct '12Visit Bristol
- Oct '12Filming Anfield Home Tour
- Oct '12Finissage Parkdesign