Conversation Table #1
Facilitated by Ying Que (the Assembly steering committee)
Cephas: Read-in, in conversation with KUNCI (Arts Collaboratory) and with graphic design by Natasha Tontey
Clerk: Staci Bu Shea / Casco Art Institute
Collection: Heman Chong and Renée Staal / The Library of Unread Books
Coin: Yin Aiwen / ReUnion Network / Commons.art
Company: Kathrin Böhm / Company Drinks / Centre for Plausible Economies / Interdependence / Community Economy Research Network (CERN)
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On 11 and 12 December 2020 Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons organized the third Assembly for commoning art institutions entitled "We Owe Each Other Everything."
Following Casco’s two earlier Assembly editions in 2018 and 2019, "We Owe Each Other Everything" addressed various forms of collective art practice and the question of their resilience, with contributions by groups from across the world, including Utrecht, Singapore, London, Warsaw, Kampala, and Medellín. These twenty-odd groups form a part of the Casco Art Institute ecosystem and go towards shaping Casco’s institutional practices and inquired: When there is never enough time and survival is uncertain, how do collective art practices continue their ways of being together and shape art institutions working for the commons?
The third annual Assembly was developed by a steering committee consisting of: artist Annette Krauss, researcher and organizer Ying Que and curator Yolande van der Heide - who co-organized the first and second Assembly in 2018 and 2019 - and Casco Art Institute: Binna Choi with support from Leana Boven and Marianna Takou.
The contributors to C-words for the Commons are Yin Aiwen / Re-Union Network / Commons.art; AndersUtrecht; anonymous; Teesa Bahana (32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, Arts Collaboratory); Sepideh Behrouzian / Belly Button Conference / Eurasia Underground Library / DAI COOP 2018-2019 study group; Belly Button Conference / Eurasia Underground Library; Kathrin Böhm/ Company Drinks / Centre for Plausible Economies / Interdependence / Community Economy Research Network (CERN); Mia van den Bos / All about my mother / DAI COOP 2019-2020 study group; Heman Chong and Renée Staal / The Library of Unread Books; Wapke Feenstra / Myvillages; Nuraini Juliastuti, KUNCI / Arts Collaboratory; Katherine MacBride / Climate Justice Code working group; Francisco Mojica / Eurasia Underground Library; Yuchen Li / Weaving Realities; Rosa Paarenkooper, School in Common; Amy Pekal / Climate Justice Code working group; Platohedro, Arts Collaboratory; Read-in, in conversation with KUNCI (Arts Collaboratory) and with graphic design by Natasha Tontey; Sina Ribak & Raquel Schwartz / KIOSKO / Arts Collaboratory; Sharon Rwakatungu / 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust; Staci Bu Shea / Casco Art Institute; Whitney Stark; Valentina Vella / Climate Justice Code working group; Hodan Warsame; Matthew Wang / Eurasia Underground Library; Caroline Woolard; Merel Zwarts, Asia Komarova, Txell Blanco / The Outsiders / Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills; Yen Noh / Eurasia Underground Library and more.
