Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons is a non-profit public art institution based in
Utrecht
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Overview
Casco was founded in 1990 as an experimental art space on the Oudegracht in Utrecht. In 1995 it was renamed Casco Projects, starting a program with a focus on autonomy and intervention. In 2003, Casco took a new title 'Office for Art, Design and Theory' to expand its framework to artistic research and interdisciplinary practices. In 2007, the institute moved to a new location on the Nieuwekade, designed by (institute for applied urbanism) and Jesko Fezer. In 2014 Casco moved to a new space on the Lange Nieuwstraat in Utrecht. 2018 marked another transitional year accompanied by the name change to Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons.
Past projects
*2018 Elephants in The Room: Assembly for commoning institutions
*2018 Biannual exhibition program:
Alma Heikkilä, "Evolved in shared relationships" and The Outsiders "Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use)"
*2017
Doria Garía
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Ingo Niermann "Army of Love", and
Heman Chong
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Renée Staal
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, "The Library of Unread Books"
*2016
Alex Martinis Roe
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, "To Become Two"
*2016
Wok The Rock
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, "Parasite Lottery"
*2015 Group Exhibition: "We Are the Time Machines: Time and Tools for Commoning"
*2015
Adelita Husni-Bey
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Early life and education
Husni-Bey received a BA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2007 and she graduated with an M ...
, "White Paper: The Law" and
Fernano Garcìa-Dory, "INLAND"
*2014
Melanie Gilligan
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Gilligan graduated from Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002 and studied at the Whitney Museum of Amer ...
, "The Common Sense" and
The Otolith Group
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, "In the Year of the Quiet Sun"
*2014
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
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, "Japan Syndrome - Utrecht Version"
*2012
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
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, "Aural Contract: The Whole Truth"
*2009-2010 "User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution", long-term "living research",
*2010 Ei Arakawa, "Hurt Locker Instruments"
*2010
Martha Rosler
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, "If you Lived Here Still..."
*2009 Metahaven, "Stadtstaadt. A Scenario for Merging Cities"
*2008
Fritz Haeg
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, "Animal Estates 6.0"
*2008 Ricardo Basbaum, "Re-projecting (Utrecht)"
*2008
Stephen Willats
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, "The Speculative Diagram"
*2007 Dave Hullfish Bailey, "What's left for its own devices (on reclamation)"
*2007
Annette Krauss Annette Krauss (born 1971) works as artist, writer and educator. Krauss is a member of the Read-in collective and her projects include ''Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given'', ''Hidden Curriculum'', ''Sites for Unlearning'', and ''Spaces of Commo ...
, "Hidden Curriculum"
Publications
* 1996 Casco Issues 1: Good & Bad
* 1997 Casco Issues 2: Parallel Worlds
*1997 Casco Issues 3
*1998 Casco Issues 4: The black-and-white issue
*1999 Casco Issues 5: Real Experiments
* 2007 The So-called Utopia
* 2007 Hidden Curriculum Files, Annette Krauss
* 2011 A Well Respected Man, Van Oldenborgh, Wendelien, in collaboration with Sternberg Press
* 2014 The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook
See also
*
List of contemporary art spaces in the Netherlands
References
External links
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Contemporary art galleries in the Netherlands
Art museums and galleries in the Netherlands