“PROPOSITIONS FOR NON-FASCIST LIVING
PROPOSITIONS #1: What We Mean
Inaugural Performative Conference 07.10.2017, 12–24 hrs BAK, Pauwstraat 13a, Utrecht (new address!)
Propositions #1: What We Mean is the inaugural performative conference of BAK’s long-term research itinerary Propositions for Non-Fascist Living, prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of historical and contemporary fascisms in our present. Through impromptu artworks, lectures, readings, discussions, screenings, performances, and explorations of the assembly—of being together—as an art form, it opens up a space for politico-aesthetic experiments practicing art as imagination, thought, and action intervening in the contemporary. The gathering takes place in a makeshift environment amid the renovation of BAK’s new venue and brings together diverse publics with the BAK 2017–2018 Fellows, as well as other artists, scholars, and activists to take on the pressing concerns of our time.”
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“Inspired by philosopher Michel Foucault, BAK develops and gathers propositions for an “art of living counter to all forms of fascism, whether al- ready present or impending,”1 including “the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
2 Propositions #1: What We Mean begins from an urgency for—and uncertainty about—what living in non-fascist ways could and does mean. From and with artistic practice, it collects, identies, blends, and surveys myriad interventions brewing in efforts to move alternatively, situating a exible base for this project and its attempts at creating ways of being together otherwise.
Contributors to Propositions #1: Quinsy Gario (poet, theater maker, and artist, Amsterdam); Migrant Domestic Workers network FNV (trade union network, Utrecht).”
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“A vegetarian lunch (€5) and dinner (€8) can be purchased during the event. Catering by Utrecht-based Rammenas and Koffie Leute.”
Jawel! Gesubsidieerde kunst in Nederland: altijd weer even getalenteerd, scherp, verrassend en ‘tot nadenken stemmend’. Goed dat uw belastinggeld nog altijd zo gezellig wordt besteed aan het in stand houden van ‘de beschaving’.
En hét icoon van post-modernisme Michel Foucault, oervader van alle SJW’s, is er ook. Dus komt allen, UvA-SJW’s.
Complete (hilarische) PDF hier.
