Usufructuaries of earth. Convention, chapter three.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst

A two-day convention that gathers artists, thinkers and social actors, to share and learn on usufruct as a way of undoing property.

Convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht together with artist Marwa Arsanios, chapter three of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day convention that gathers artists, as well as other thinkers and social actors, to share and learn on usufruct as a way of undoing property from the regimes of privatization that perpetually usurp the earth’s resources for the interests of a select few. Along with chapter one of the project—an exhibition with works by Arsanios, and chapter two—consisting of a federated structure of reading groups and a slow-growing reader and learning curriculum on BAK’s online publishing forum Prospections, the third and culminating chapter of Usufructuaries of earth inquires into practices of ethically sharing the earth’s usufruct, and the ways to transfigure regimes of ownership into communal userships.

PUBLIC PROGRAM 24 May 2024, 16.00–22.00 hrs, and 25 May 2024, 12.00–22.00 hrsThe public program is open to everyone, but it is advised to pre-book your ticket through Eventbrite in order to assure access. A ticket for 1 day costs €6, a ticket for both days costs €10. BAK offers without-cost solidarity tickets to enable the participation of those who would otherwise be unable to afford a ticket. Some soup and snacks prepared by b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN upon solidarity donation. On 25 May, public conversations will be bilingual in English and Spanish. If you like to make use of this, please bring your own phone to enter Zoom, headphones and, if possible, a portable charger. ___________________________________________________________________________________Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs16.00–16.45 hrs DOORS OPEN A possibility to see the exhibition Usufructuaries of earth 16.45–17.00 hrs WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Maria Hlavajova 17.00–17.30 hrs Usufructuaries of earth Conversation between <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/marwa+arsanios/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/marwa+arsanios/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marwa Arsanios</a> and <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/wietske+maas/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/wietske+maas/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wietske Maas</a> 17.30–19.00 hrs Life and Death Beyond the Boundary Conversation between <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brenna Bhandar</a>, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/yvonne+phyllis/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/yvonne+phyllis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yvonne Phyllis</a>, and <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ruth+wilson+gilmore/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ruth+wilson+gilmore/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ruth Wilson Gilmore</a> (online), moderated by Layal Ftouni Amidst ongoing ecocide and genocide, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brenna Bhandar</a> considers the colonial and racial dynamics inherent to the legal architecture of modern property law. <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/yvonne+phyllis/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/yvonne+phyllis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yvonne Phyllis</a> dwells on the question of belonging to earth (rather than the claim of earth belonging to us) as an assertion of land reclamation for unfree farmworkers across generations. <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ruth+wilson+gilmore/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ruth+wilson+gilmore/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ruth Wilson Gilmore</a> foregrounds abolition geography as solidarities of place-making across interconnected geographies. Bringing together their respective contributions, the conversation posits “usufructuaries of earth” as an undoing of the idea of individual exclusive land ownership as we know it. In so doing, the conversation reconceives usufruct that collapses enclosures of—and boundaries between—life and death. “Life and Death Beyond the Boundary” refutes the necropolitics of private property form, and contemplates instead possibilities of usufruct emancipated from colonial capital’s scripts of dispossession. 19.00–19.45 hrs BREAK Soups and snacks by <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/b+asic+a+ctivist+k+itchen/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/b+asic+a+ctivist+k+itchen/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN</a> upon solidarity donation (limited quantities) 19.45–21.00 hrs SCREENING AND CONVERSATION Philip Rizk, Mapping Lessons, 2020, 60 min. Followed by a conversation between <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/philip+rizk/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/philip+rizk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Philip Rizk</a> and Marwa Arsanios The essay-film Mapping Lessons travels with K through time and place to a “Middle East” being colonized, where fences form borders of private property and national boundaries. Resistance in 1960s Vietnam or national liberation in Angola, undoing state structures in the Syrian Revolution and the Paris Commune, to undoing property in the early days of the Soviets and 1936 Spain these are the images that mark starting points of preparing for the next time. 21.00 hrs RECEPTION ___________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday 25 May 2024 12.00–22.00 hrs 12.00–13.00 hrs DOORS OPEN A possibility to see the exhibition Usufructuaries of earth 13.00–13.15 hrs WORDS OF WELCOME Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas 13.15–13.40 hrs PROPOSITIONS 1 Beyond Value Denise Ferreira da Silva (online) and Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona This proposition brings forward a working critique of value through the lens of Black feminist aesthetics and radical political economies. How can value be reconceived as a gathering of matter that resists containment, capture, and possession—as a reclamation of an aesthetics of matter that takes opacity, relationality, and hapticality as its starting point? 13.40–14.05 hrs PROPOSITIONS 2 Taking Debt Out of the Closet Verónica Gago (online) and Lucí Cavallero* Disclosing how neoliberal finance exploits domestic and care labor and other forms of social reproduction, this proposition builds on feminist solidarities to articulate a collective political grammar against the invasion of debt in everyday life. 14.05–14.20 hrs BREAK 14.20–15.35 hrs PLENARY: PROPOSITIONS 1 and 2* Lucí Cavallero, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/clara+balaguer/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/clara+balaguer/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Clara Balaguer</a>, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/massimiliano++mao++mollona/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/massimiliano++mao++mollona/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona</a>, and <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ola+hassanain/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/ola+hassanain/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ola Hassanain</a>, moderated by <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/lama+el+khatib/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/lama+el+khatib/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lama El Khatib</a> and Iliada Charlambous** 15.35–16.00 hrs MADEYOULOOK, Mafolofolo: a place of recovery A listening Mafolofolo: a place of recovery emerges from five years of research conducted by <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/madeyoulook/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/madeyoulook/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MADEYOULOOK</a> in the northern part of South Africa. Their research aimed to understand the multiple cycles of loss and subsequent cycles of return related to the land. They are concerned with the deep and enduring relationships with the land that persist, despite the long duration of South Africa’s turbulent and destabilizing existence. What they draw from the particular history of this place is the potential to seek intimacy, spiritual security, and interdependence with the land and more-than-human life. Through it, they encounter how they might repair themselves and the lands from which they find sustenance. 16.00–16.15 hrs BREAK 16.15–16.40 hrs PROPOSITIONS 3 Failing, Dreaming, Doing: rehearsing abolition MADEYOULOOK and Yvonne Phyllis This proposition departs from the movement for radical land reform in South Africa. In the face of these failed dreams, and in the context of ongoing battles for and through land in places such as Palestine, where many continue to dream of and plan for return, Failing, Dreaming, Doingseeks to conjure alternate imaginaries of life and labor with earth, beyond the regimes of colonial and racial enclosure. 16.40–17.05 hrs PROPOSITIONS 4 Germinating Resistance Gruppo Semillas (Samanta Arango Orozco and Arelly Collazos)* This proposition unearths the implications of seed guardianship in catalyzing an agrarian commons. Germinating Resistance proposes how something as seemingly insignificant as a seed generates communal resistance against the war of private property and cultivates instead a more-than-human usufructuary of earth. 17.05–18.20 hrs PLENARY: PROPOSITIONS 3 and 4 Samanta Arango Orozco, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/marwa+arsanios/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/marwa+arsanios/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marwa Arsanios</a>, Tareq Khalaf, and <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/madeyoulook/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/madeyoulook/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MADEYOULOOK</a>, moderated by <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/aya+bseiso/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/aya+bseiso/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Aya Bseiso</a> and Joud Al-Tamimi** 18.20–18.45 hrs BREAK 18.45–20.00 hrs CLOSING PLENARY Yvonne Phyllis, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/denise+ferreira+da+silva/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/denise+ferreira+da+silva/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Denise Ferreira da Silva</a> (online), <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/veronica+gago/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/veronica+gago/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Verónica Gago</a>, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/stefano+harney/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/stefano+harney/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stefano Harney</a>, <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/lena+wilderbach/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/lena+wilderbach/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lena Wilderbach</a>, and <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/brenna+bhandar/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brenna Bhandar</a>, moderated by Shela Sheikh** 20.00–22.30 hrs FOOD, DRINKS, AND MUSIC Soups and snacks by <a href="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/b+asic+a+ctivist+k+itchen/" title="https://bakonline.org/en/community+praxis/accomplices/b+asic+a+ctivist+k+itchen/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN</a> upon solidarity donation (limited quantities) *Parts of the program spoken in Spanish are with live interpretation into English via Zoom. Throughout the program, spoken English is live interpreted into Spanish. **Plenary constellation subject to change, allowing for participation for other participants of the working sessions

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