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Calendar of Events

The calendar includes details of workshops, discussions, performances and artists in residence at the Museum of Arte Útil

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Wed, Dec 04

Opening speeches: Charles Esche, Tania Bruguera, Tom Finkelpearl


Join us for the opening speeches with Van Abbemuseum director Charles Esche, initiator of the Museum of Arte Útil, Tania Bruguera and director of the Queens Museum, Tom Finkelpearl.

4.00pm, Auditorium

Fri, Dec 06

Conclusion of Nuria Guell’s ‘Humanitarian Aid’


Witness the conclusion of 'Humanitarian Aid', as director of the Van Abbemuseum, Charles Esche, reads out the legal statement to formally divorce Nuria Guell and her husband.

4.45pm, A04 / Alegal

Sat, Dec 07

Opening: Museum of Arte Útil


2:30 - 7.00pm
A new temporary institution opens in the Old Building of the Van Abbemuseum

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Sun, Dec 08

Honest Shop Workshop


Alistair Hudson and Adam Sutherland from Grizedale Arts run a workshop for the Honest Shop with stool building and hat making!

11.00am, A01 / Use it Yourself

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Wed, Dec 11

Interest group Van Abbemuseum


Interest group of van Abbemuseum will rent room Institutional Repurpose

2:30-4:30 pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose

Sat, Dec 14

Visible Prize: A Public Jury


Second edition of the Visible Award. The attendees of this event will be part of the prestigious jury, as they decide together who will win the 2013 Visible Award.

On 14 December the jury, chaired by Charles Esche and including Museum of Arte Util initiator tania Bruguera, will gather a together in order to assess the merits of the 10 shortlisted projects and select the winner of the 2013 Visible Award. Next to the five invited jury members, the audience of the event represents the sixth member of the jury and will be able to put in a public vote.

10.00am - 8.00pm, Van Abbemuseum Studio

Tue, Dec 17

Yomango! Skype Workshop


Spanish collective Yomango! will be conducting a Skype Workshop on how to get the most form your visit to the shops! Making a bag against radioactivity.

3.00 - 4.00pm, A1-01 / Use it Yourself

Wed, Dec 18

NSK Passport Office


On the occasion of the International Migrants Day promoted by the UN General Assembly, members of IRWIN will be setting up a temporary passport office in the Museum of Arte Útil where NSK passports will be available. The first 10 passports will be free of charge, then the cost will be 24 €.

11.00am - 1.00pm / 3.00pm - 5.00pm, A1-04 / Alegal

Thu, Dec 19

made for talent art night


made for talent event for made-members

18.30 - 20.00pm, A1.01 / Use it Yourself, A1.05 / Room of Controversies

Fri, Dec 20

Speeddating Young Art Crowd


14:30 - 17:00 The participans of The Young Art Crowd will speeddate with eachother.

Light Therapy Room

Tue, Jan 07

Internal course ‘Once Upon a Time…’


Internal course about the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time...' for employees and volunteers of the museum. Private meeting.

2.15 - 4.15pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Fri, Jan 10

Laurie Jo Reynolds in residence


Laurie Jo Reynolds, initiator of the Tammes Ten Year Project, will be in residence at the Museum of Arte Util and working.

Laurie Jo will be using her time here to work through her archive, which has been compiled over ten years and has been brought over from Chicago. She will also be conducting talks and workshops with users of the museum.

A07 / Space Hijack

Sat, Jan 11

Controversies, session 1: Arte Útil, activism and sincerity


Art has the potential for real social change. Yet often initiatives that migrate between art and activism are accused of lacking in either political or artistic sincerity. Who are these initiatives really for, what are their motives and what are they achieving?
Guests: Tania Bruguera, Thomas Phillipe Guya, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Jonas Staal, Elke Uitenuis.

2:30 - 4:30pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Sat, Jan 11

A Parasitical Breed of Consumer / Workshop


This hands-on session, led by Jeannette Petrik, will focus on the action of turning leftover vegetables into sausages, a simple, yet effective preservation method. Unlike their traditional counterparts, these vegetable-based sausages elevate leftover materials which have been discarded as 'waste' to the status of a delicacy as the act of preservation increases the material's use value, while, simultaneously, changing its perceived value. The application of simple skills transforms 'trash' into a useful product - in itself an act of politicizing seemingly innocent, a-political practices of food preparation.
The vegetables used within the workshop are leftovers from Ekoplaza Eindhoven.

1.30 - 2.30 pm, A01 / Do it yourself

Sun, Jan 12

The Making Makes Yours / Workshop


'The Making Makes Yours' Felting human hair by Alix Bizet, student of the Design Academy Eindhoven.

The manmade and cultural aspect of Dutch landscape inspired this project.
We have tamed nature as we do with our own bodies.
We treat our hair everyday to shape it as we desire, whilst at the same time disposing of dead hair which we consider waste.
As a conversation piece, I try to reflect on our human nature to define the useful or useless, and our industrial culture to create waste.
From the idea that to change our relationship with Nature we must look at ourselves first.
I then explored the idea of recycling dead hair with the traditional felt technique to produce homemade felt and objects.

2:00 - 3:30 pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Tue, Jan 14

Internal course ‘Once Upon a Time…’


Internal course about the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time...' for employees and volunteers of the museum. Private meeting.

2.15 - 4.15pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Jan 16

Screening / Strike Debt


Tonight we will present a series of documentaries about Strike Debt. Strike Debt, an organization that arose out of the Occupy movement, developed The Rolling Jubilee in 2012 to resist the growing debt system in the US.
You can read more information reading the card on our online archive.

http://rollingjubilee.org/

7 pm - Auditorium

Sun, Jan 19

Opening: Creative Determination


How could art function as an instrument of social reaction? What moves collective determination in concrete situations? Could art propose new ways to develop our society? Could art be considered as a tool of creative determination? In relation with the Museum of Arte Útil, the library will propose an exhibition that connects various citizens movements, alternative episodes and artists groups from Eindhoven during the 60´s, 70´s and 80´s with some examples from the Arte Útil archive and its international record of creative resistance against power and socio-political systems of control during these decades. The exhibition is curated by Museum of Arte Util researcher Gemma Medina.

3.00 - 4.30pm, Van Abbemuseum library

Tue, Jan 21

Internal course ‘Once Upon a Time…’


Internal course about the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time...' for employees and volunteers of the museum. Private meeting.

2.15 - 4.15pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Jan 23

Screening / Foreigners Out! Schlingensiefs Container


Foreigners Out! Schlingensiefs Container (O.T.: Ausländer Raus! Schlingensiefs Container) is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed.

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna´s touristic heart, right beside the pittoresque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, “Big Brother” especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by´s and two were thrown out of country through web-voting per day. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny…and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800.000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.

Directed by Paul Poet
With Luc Bondy, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gregor Gysi, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Sellars, Peter Sloterdijk u.a.
A 2001, 90 min

6.00 - 7.30 pm, Auditorium

Thu, Jan 23

Auction sale for optimism – time as change / Workshop


Fiona du Mesnildot - Conversation / debate/ design process.

During the afternoon the Bureau de Change for Optimism will be open to receive anybody’s complaints. I will offer my services as an attentive ear for anyone who wants to get rid of his pessimistic feelings without inhibitions or prejudices. Nevertheless, each minute spend in complaints will be charged of another minute to search with me an optimistic opportunity of design in your discontent.

On the evening, the room of controversies will be turned into a room where everybody is invited to take part to the first auction sale for optimism. If time is money, how much are you ready to spend in complaints? How much are you ready to give for optimism? Each topic will be put under the hammer with a starting price of 30 seconds of complaints for 30 seconds of optimism.


2.00 - 5.30 pm Bureau de change for optimism / 6.00 - 8.00 pm Auction sale for optimism

Sat, Jan 25

Focus Open Art Collective: Discussing a variety of subjects of the exhibition. Review and discuss!


Focus / meeting
Focus is an (open) artist collective and gathers within different contexts, on different locations, discussing a variety of subjects. In these meetings we are exchanging knowledge and expertise horizontally in order to enrich each other’s ideas. Focus is organized at Museum Arte Útil on the initiative of visual artist Edwin Stolk, the idea is to see and discuss the exhibition, the concept of useful art and is open for people who accidentally pass by.
Focus meetings are initiated by the artists: Marieke Coppens, Giorgi Tabatadze, Nina Glockner and Edwin Stolk.

2 –4 pm , Room A02 / Institutional Repurpose - The Light Therapy Room

Sun, Jan 26

WochenKlausur in residence


Austrian Collective WochenKlasusur will be in residence for two weeks working in Eindhoven. The group, who cam on a preliminary research trip in Autumn 2013 will be developing a proposal for a long term project in Eindhoven. Their residency will culminate in a public workshop.

A07 / Space Hijack

Tue, Jan 28

Internal course ‘Once Upon a Time…’


Internal course about the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time...' for employees and volunteers of the museum. Private meeting.

2.15 - 4.15pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Jan 30

Everything you always wanted to know about AU (but were afraid to ask)


Do you have any questions about Arte Útil?
On Thursday 30th January from 7.00 to 9.00 pm Arte Útil team members Gemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti will be available to talk to and share their insights. They will answer the Frequently Asked Questions about the Museum of Arte Útil and any other inquiries about the development of the research.
How about your language skills?
In addition they will be available for a short guided tour in Spanish and Italian (English and Dutch, too)!

7.00 - 9.00 pm, A06 / Archive Room

Thu, Jan 30

Closed Workshop: Eindhoven’s Experiments in Art & Technology


Eindhoven's Experiments in Art & Technology (E.E.A.T) will give a closed workshop for students from the creative and technical studies in Eindhoven.

There is a gap between the creative and the technological industry in Eindhoven, E.E.A.T creates bridges in order for these two worlds to come together. The idea of collaboration is based within the expansion of creative thinking within a more practical and technical scenario and of technological thinking within a more creative context.
E.E.A.T would like to bring artists and engineers together. Both parties will bring their ideas to the table and have further discussions resulting in well developed projects.

6:00 -8:00 Pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Sat, Feb 01

Google Prophecy, scan the lines of your hand and see your personal future / Workshop


Student of Man&Communication department, Design Academy, organized the Google Prophecy:
Google Prophecy is a machine that generates your personal forecast or advice based on most common request on Google about future. Place your hand in the scanner and wait for your prophecy to come out!
In the era of reliance on internet objectivity Google becomes an ultimate tool to access any data, therefore — an ultimate forecaster or an advisor. If we want to know about future, we simply Google: “What will happen tomorrow?” “What should I cook tonight?” So does the Prophecy: in order to generate an answer, it searches for questions.
The machine moves around the city in search for dialogue and discussion about ways we treat information and ways we are being treated by it.
Accompanied by: Anastasia Kubrak

11.00 am - 5.00 pm, A08 / Open Access

Sun, Feb 02

Google Prophecy, scan the lines of your hand and see your personal future / Workshop


"Google Prophecy" it is a device which scans lines of your hand, like in traditional forecasting, and generates your personal future forecast or an advice, based on most common requests about future on Google.
It looks like a kiosk, so viewers are invited to get their own prophecy.
What is your question about the future ? Come and see the Google Prophecy!



11.00 am - 5.00 pm, A01 / Do it yourself

Sun, Feb 02

Jugaad / Workshop


Students of the Design Academy Eindhoven, give the Jugaad workshop:
Eindhoven is a multi-cultural city. Students, families, interns, employees, residents and researchers all live in this city together either temporarily or permanently. Coming from different cultures and backgrounds; everyone has different methods and alternatives to solve everyday small issues.
We propose to conduct a ‘Jugaad’ workshop referring to the culture of ‘Jugaad Innovation’ from India; in order to share this knowledge with the citizens of Eindhoven and the Museum visitors.
Jugaad is a Hindi-Urdu term widely used in India and Pakistan and by people of South Asian origin around the world. Jugaad is a term applied to a creative or innovative idea providing a quick, alternative way of solving or fixing a problem. Jugaad literally means an improvised arrangement or work-around, which has to be used because of lack of resources. A kind of low-cost design solution methodology.


02:30 - 5:00 Pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Wed, Feb 05

HUNNIE / In search of (our) new nature


A lecture by Henriëtte Waal and Sophie Krier (Hunnie) for Museum of Arte Útil & Source (DAE)

What are the key elements of our desires for nature? To which form of nature do we want to contribute, now that cows and greenhouses are disappearing from the landscape?
During a one-year field research, Hunnie ('them' in local slang) designed and tested new forms of recreation and maintenance in De Bovenlanden in the Dutch Province of Utrecht. The polder will exchange its agricultural function for a nature reserve in the context of a European plan to link ecological zones and allow flora and fauna to migrate and diversify. Hunnie's focus is the role of humans in relation to this man-made 'new nature'.
Initiators and designers Henriëtte Waal and Sophie Krier invested time in getting to know inhabitants and local clubs with very specific knowledge of the area. Fishermen, hunters, historians, geologists, biologists, dieticians, artists, water engineers were given the role of guides, while scientists and thinkers were asked to provide a reflective framework. New nature lovers from the surrounding cities were attracted through a series of seasonal Adventures, products and field workshops related to water, clay, grass, willow, wildlife and wilderness. Hence, Hunnie links 'them' from De Bovenlanden to 'them' who are about to discover it.

www.hunnie.nu

3.00 - 5.00 pm / Auditorium

Thu, Feb 06

Controversies, session 2: Arte Útil, gentrification and misuse


Art initiatives have increasingly taken on the role of urban planners. Equally, governments and city councils look to artists to regenerate communities. But often good intentions are coopted whilst the artworld settles for reading case studies within a limited framework. Within such initiatives who and what is being misused?

Guests: Bik Van der Pol, Theaster Gates (via Skype), Renzo Martens, Luk Sponselee, WochenKlausur.

6.30 - 8.30pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Thu, Feb 06

Kunstlicht99 / Meeting


Closed meeting:
Kunstlicht 99, comes together in Museum of Arte Útil and will have a meeting.
Accompanied by: Katrien van Hettema

7:30 - 8:45 Pm, A02 / Institutiunal Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Sat, Feb 08

A Parasitical Breed of Consumer / Workshop


This hands-on session will focus on the action of preserving leftover vegetables by use of the simple, yet effective preservation method of fermentation. Through the act of preservation leftover materials, which have been discarded as 'waste', will be elevated to the status of a delicacy as the material's use value increases, simultaneously, changing its perceived value. The application of simple skills transforms 'waste' into a useful product - in itself an act of politicizing seemingly innocent, a-political practices of food preparation.

The vegetables used within the workshop are leftovers from Ekoplaza shops in Eindhoven and Rotterdam.

Workshop held by Jeannette Petrik
www.jeannettepetrik.com

1.30 - 2.30 pm, A01 / Do it yourself

Sat, Feb 08

WochenKlausur in residency / public presentation


The Austrian collective WochenKlausur will give a presentation of their past and recent projects.
Since 1993 and on invitation from different art institutions, the artist group WochenKlausur develops concrete proposals aimed at small, but nevertheless effective improvements to socio-political deficiencies. Proceeding even further and invariably translating these proposals into action, artistic creativity is no longer seen as a formal act but as an intervention into society.

http://www.wochenklausur.at/

2.30 - 4.00 pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Sun, Feb 09

Paint Your Own Swing at Swings Holland


Who says, swings belong in parks?
Swings Holland hang handmade swings throughout Holland. On trees, random objects, in or on premises, from bridges ... basically everywhere! Swings Holland makes nice places just more fun with a swing.
In Eindhoven, they have only a few wild swings hanging. Swings Holland would like to bring change! There are a lot of boards ready and we would ask you to make them ready for fluctuating buttocks! You can go ahead and create your own mini-masterpiece, with paint and brushes. And maybe you'll find him later in a surprising place for a game of feet in the air ... Wiiiii! "


11:00 Am - 5:00 Pm, A01/ Do It Yourself

Mon, Feb 10

Closed meeting: Woensel Supertoll!


District coordinates from: Woonbedrijf, will give a pitch and kick off.
Together they devise how Woensel Super Toll! Woensel North can go withdraw it.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Feb 13

Internal Meeting


Internal meeting with curators of various museums.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Feb 13

Screening / Home Sweet Stratum + Willen Behring Plein


Home Sweet Stratum is a documentary drama about the lives of several young people living in Stratum, an area in the south of Eindhoven. The material is chosen and filmed by the teenagers themselves. It gives a hard, unrestrained and intriguing depiction of a district about to be demolished. Stratum has since been replaced by a new housing estate. Home Sweet Stratum is a project by Stichting Zesde Kolonne within the framework of Buurtparticipatie Eindhoven.
ZK 043 2000. 80 min - Dutch, no subtitles


Willem Behring Plein is a reconstruction of a hot summer of fun, violence and clashes with police on a square in a Helmond 'ghetto'. Through interviews with eye witnesses, young people tell what happened that summer.




6.00 - 7.30 pm Library

Thu, Feb 13

The Future of the Honest Shop


Suppliers and manufacturers of the Honest Shop will think about the future of the Honest Shop.

7:00 Pm - 9:00 Pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Sat, Feb 15

Open Workshop: Theatre group ToTo


This workshop does not only concern looking at images, which is usually the case with museum visits, but also making images.
We will use ourselves as an image; we’ll be like an actor that ‘freezes’. A couple of minutes the actor is paused from motion and emotion.
The images that we will create are based on improvisations and themes everybody will recognize. Visitors passing by will be asked to take a position that relates to the image. What does it evoke? Which stories will it generate? Playfully we’ll explore the ‘big themes’: what does oppression look like? Or resistance, power, love or hate? The visitor will get the chance to explore how their own knowledge relates to theatrical elements; how do I cope with these themes? What am I learning, and do I want to explore the theme otherwise? The workshop-guides are ‘Theatre of the Oppresed’ practitioners. It will be a workshop with short, accessible exercises and games, enjoyable spectatorship and mistakes by which we will celebrate the experience of learning!


12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, A09 / Legislative Theatre

Mon, Feb 17

Jeanne Van Heeswijk in residence


Rotterdam based artists Jeanne van Heeswijk will be in residence developing a project in Eindhoven over three weeks.

A07 / Space Hijack

Wed, Feb 19

Hacktivism Workshop


This workshop, led by Carmin Karasic, is organised in collaboration with Baltan Laboratories. The idea of this workshop is to increase awareness and understanding of the many issues associated with hacktivism. A topical issue in the local news will serve as a catalyst for critical discussion. The goal is to use civil debate and informed opinions to proactively influence social change.

3.00 - 5.00pm, A1-08 / Open Access

Thu, Feb 20

Controversies, session 3: Arte Útil, 2.0 culture and disobedience


Today, art has the potential to challenge the status quo through new forms of technology. Within the current system the law and our access to information does not always protect the many but the few in power. Civic disobedience is one strategy to disrupt the status quo. But who gains from such forms of disobedience and is this an effective way to disrupt power?
Guests: Ricardo Dominguez (Skype), Carmin Karasic, Steve Kurtz (Skype).

18.30 - 20.30pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Thu, Feb 20

Closed meeting: brainstorming fashion & durability


Brainstorming and research for new business plan, focusing on fashion and sustainability.
Directed by : Suzanne Smulders

6:45 Pm - 09:00 Pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Feb 20

Closed activity: Young Art Crowd Dinner; Musée Manger


Van Abbe's youth collective Young Art Crowd is organising a dinner at the Institutional Repurpose. This youth collective is active in organising events for the younger audience interested in art. They will combine the joy of a dinner with the fulfilment art can bring. The dinner is linked to a guided tour through the museum and will utilise the Light Therapy Room afterwards for conversation and dining, at which time the impressions of the exhibition can be discussed. We have two conditions: bring yourself and bring some food! After registration at yac@vanabbe.nl, you can take place at the dinner table after having enjoyed the guided tour. There is a maximum of 30 registrations, so be quick! AND, it is free.

The Young Art Crowd has also been active in organising the Young Art Night; the museum is turned into a night-time-party-atmosphere where exhibited pieces and celebration fused like there was no tomorrow. They have a good sense of what is 'happening' amongst the young and are able to translate it into concrete events, such as this lively dining-experience.

5.00 pm - 9.00 pm, A02 - Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Sat, Feb 22

Only do what feels right for you, experience this activity!


Tessa Custers en Lianne van Genugten will provide a basic yoga workshop in room A09. She will suggest you to do what you just feel right to your body. Subscribe to: yogajuftes@gmail.com


11:00 Am - 13:00 Pm A09 / Legislative Theatre

Sat, Feb 22

Animation / Workshop


This workshop will introduce visitors how animation works. The workshop shows how, in a very easy way, from natural objects as sticks and leaves, we can create characters, landscape, animals etc. The final project will be a short video that combines all the animations together. The workshop is available for all participants

12.00pm - 5.00 pm, A01 - Do It Yourself

Sun, Feb 23

Open activity: Shelly Lapré: Suitcases full Memories


The lecture will be given by: Shelly Lapré and Marc Tierolf. It starts with a performance dance ritual. They talk about their families before, during and after the war in the Dutch East Indies. Shelly began this project when her parents were cleaning up the attic.
She presents the stories about her (grand) parents in the traveltrunk from Dutch - India. The old suitcase, which was used by her mother during the boat trip, from India to the Netherlands in 1950, is edited with antique fabrics and nostalgic old family photos into a work of art. The suitcase is not insignificantly tucked away somewhere in the attic, but now serves as a sort of sound box of memories from the life of the family of Shelly in Dutch East Indies.
Listen to the performance and participate! She will give her workshop at the 30 of March. Sign up!



1:00 - 5:00 Pm, A09 / Legislative Change

Sun, Feb 23

Marketing for Education / Workshop


Urine has been the focus of many medical research and urine therapy is still used in the East as a way of self-healing. The way that the pharmaceutical system operates makes it very hard for people to understand what their drugs or cosmetics are made off. This secretive attitude is perpetuated because people don't have ways to find out what their drugs are made off or they prefer not to know. In the case of urine, it is a substance that most people associate with waste or even think it is toxic. This project rebrands urine in a more clean and scientific way and looks at how people respond to it after it is decontextualized and explained. Many drugs and cosmetics in the market contain substances found in urine, like Urea, which is found in the most expensive hydrating creams. However today these substances are chemically produced in the lab instead. During the workshop we are making people aware of how the branding of drugs and cosmetics work. Providing them with information on what chemicals urine consists of and how these same chemicals are used in many areas of medicine today.

1.00 pm - 4.00 pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Tue, Feb 25

Consumer Knowledge / Open workshop


Another world is possible if you ask for it – towards an economy of question and answer. For
asking better questions we need better insight in the big picture to find our ways in all
directions to find the most creative and innovative answers (products, services and advises).
Consumer organizations, consumer education and our own activities and experiences are the
tools for lifelong learning. Join the Consumer360Experience for 10 minutes to upgrade your
knowledge!

11.00 am - 5.00 pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Thu, Feb 27

Live stream of “The New Abduction of Europe”


“The New Abduction of Europe: debt, war and democratic revolutions “ reflects on the formation of new cultural and political agents as a result of the insufficiency of the institutional structures that have articulated the European project up to now. Structured into workshops and round tables, the event seeks to pave the way for a renewed social pact between institutions and civil society.

The opening session on 27th February will be streamed live at 6:30 p.m. at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Free entrance. Follow the seminar and send your questions on Twitter The New Abduction of Europe @AbductionEU

Check the final program and participants at the Museo Reina Sofía on http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/linternationale/new-abduction-europe.
You can follow the live stream at http://new.livestream.com/museo-reina-sofia

from 6.30 pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Thu, Feb 27

Stichting K9 / Meeting


Stichting K9 will meet in the Light Therapy Room

Stichting K9, an advocate of cultural institutions, will meet with approximately 12 organisations (including Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Beeldenstorm, Keldermans&VanNoordt, Artspace Flipside, Berkenhuisje) to discuss current issues.

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Feb 27

Closed workshop: Philosophy and Art


Carla Bakker will give a closed workshop about Philosophy and Art.
She welcomes her group and visit the exhibition: 'Once upon a time...'
Afterwards they will philosophize about a selected artwork in Museum of Arte Util.

7:00 pm - 21:00 pm, A02 - Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Feb 27

Workshop / Openbaar ideeënatelier


Brainstorming with art:

As a participant of the workshop: 'brainstorming with art' you will encounter a dominant, personal issue. You do not have to elaborate the matter, but at the end of the day, you will go home with specific answers. 'Active watching' has a central position in the workshop. It is free, but since there are limites spaces, you have to register at: http://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-brainstormen-met-kunst-in-van-abbemuseum-10562612057?aff=es2&rank=1&sid=df90851c91b811e38f9b12313b0a99d4

7:00 pm - 8:45 pm, Leslokaal

Sat, Mar 01

Work Before Playing / Workshop


‘Work Before Playing’ is a pop-up crèche and a playground for children made by children themselves. The initial structure is a simple framework provided by the initiator, where children should nail down wood panels in order to finalize it. Slides and stairs are added at the very last minute, when the structure is ready, so children can start playing with it. Eindhoven-based artist Mike Merrington will build such a castle in the hall of the Museum of Arte Útil, together with the young and joyful participants of the Kinderkunstclub.

2.00 pm - 4.00 pm / Entrance Hall

Tue, Mar 04

Craft Workshop inspired by Picasso and Carnival


Closed Workshop.
A group of children with accompaniment going to look at two Picasso artworks in the exhibition 'Once upon a time ..' then Crafts in room: Do it Yourself, a mask together to do with the theme of Carnival and Picasso.

2:00-4:00 Pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Wed, Mar 05

Craft Workshop inspired by Picasso and Carnival


Closed Workshop.
A group of children with accompaniment going to look at two Picasso artworks in the exhibition 'Once upon a time ..' then Crafts in room: Do it Yourself, a mask together to do with the theme of Carnival and Picasso.

2:00 - 4:00 Pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Thu, Mar 06

Controversies, session 4: Arte Útil, Social Design and Instrumentalisation


The line between Arte Útil case studies and social design is often barely visible. Within these initiatives the question of instrumentalisation often arises with a gap developing between the initiator and users. How and where are people being instrumentalised and to what ends?
Guests: Azra Akšamija (via Skype), Jan Boelen, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Jalila Essaïdi, Jeanne van Heeswijk.

6.30 - 8.30pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Thu, Mar 06

Museum Choir sings!




07:00 Pm - 08:30 Pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Mar 06

Build your own ‘Follie’ / Open Workshop for children


Do you like to create your own constructions from wood, and are you 8 to 12 years old? Building your own 'follie' you would surely like! A follie is a imaginary building. Maybe your follie has towers, or stairs or a secret underground passage. It could be a contruction built on poles, or one that looks like a bridge. Pictures from real follies that were built by artists will be your inspiration.
By tacking bricks, and by using sandpaper and glue, we will make our own constructions. With nails and various pieces of wood - matches, chopsticks - we will decorate our follies. As a finishing touch, you can cut out doors and windows from thin wood veneer.
After the workshop you can take your follie home.
Are you finished? You can help out with a bigger collective building.


11.00 am - 1.00 pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Thu, Mar 06

Consumer Knowledge / Open workshop


Another world is possible if you ask for it – towards an economy of question and answer. For
asking better questions we need better insight in the big picture to find our ways in all
directions to find the most creative and innovative answers (products, services and advises).
Consumer organizations, consumer education and our own activities and experiences are the
tools for lifelong learning. Join the Consumer360Experience for 10 minutes to upgrade your
knowledge!

3.30 - 5.30 Pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Fri, Mar 07

Make a Mask / Open Workshop for children


Do you like to create your own artworks from wood and are you 8 to 12 years old? Then you will surely like to make a mask of an animal or humanlike creature. Your mask may look angry, happy, severe or scared. You are free to choose any expression for your mask. Maybe your mask mask will be completely alien...
First, we will have a look at masks that were made by artists. These will serve as our inspiration and will help you to come up with your own ideas.
The base will be a wooden board as big as a face. On this mask you can glue different wooden shapes, such as a nose, ears, eyes and eyebrows. But, before we can start glueing up the pieces, we must first sandpaper the shapes. Perhaps you will also need some nails as decoration, for instance as eyes or hair. Or you could make hair our of small sticks, as little as matches, and glue these on your mask. Also wood veneer (wood as thin as paper) and chopstick may be nice decorations for your artwork.
After the workshop, you can take your own mask home.
When you have completed your own mask, you can help out with a collective artwork.

11.00 am-1:00 pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Fri, Mar 07

Consumer Knowledge / Open workshop


Another world is possible if you ask for it – towards an economy of question and answer. For
asking better questions we need better insight in the big picture to find our ways in all
directions to find the most creative and innovative answers (products, services and advises).
Consumer organizations, consumer education and our own activities and experiences are the
tools for lifelong learning. Join the Consumer360Experience for 10 minutes to upgrade your
knowledge!

3.00 - 5.00 Pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Sat, Mar 08

Legislative Theater Project


The Legislative Theater was implemented in Netherlands by Luc Opdebeeck (artistic director of Formaat) with many different groups.

During The Museum of Arte Útil Formaat will work in a Legislative project with a group from Eindhoven. De Workshop and rehearsals will be developed in the room of Legislative Change (A-09) in relation with the work of Augusto Boal. During the workshop and rehearsals the public is free to enter and participate. It´s a symbolical translation of Boal´s methodology and a direct practice.

During the workshops the different stories of the participants will be compiled as the starting point for the rest of the process. It will happen during theater exercises. From the public workshop a little group of participants will be selected to continue with the process and work with a Legislative project.



11.00 am - 1.00 pm and 2.30 - 5.00 pm, A09 / Legislative Change

Sat, Mar 08

Make your own Imaginary Animal / Open Wokshop for Children


Do you like to make your own artwork from wood, and are you 8 to 12 years old? The you will surely like to create your own imaginary animal from wood. Maybe your animal has the head of a bird on the body of a crocodile. Or, maybe it has the long neck of a giraffe, but then with two heads and a fish tail.
First, we will take a look at examples of imaginary animals that were made by artists. These will serve as our inspiration and give you new ideas.
We will start with the biggest pieces to make the body. Then, we wil glue smaller pieces on it, such as the neck, legs, tail or wings. But, before you start glueing the parts together, we must first sandpaper each piece. Maybe you will also need some nails as decoration for the eyes or hair. With felt pens you can draw hair or scales or spots on your animal.
After the workshop, you can take your own animal home.
When you have completed your own artwork, you can help out with our big collective work.

11.00 am - 12.00 pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Sat, Mar 08

Consumer Knowledge / Open workshop


Another world is possible if you ask for it – towards an economy of question and answer. For
asking better questions we need better insight in the big picture to find our ways in all
directions to find the most creative and innovative answers (products, services and advises).
Consumer organizations, consumer education and our own activities and experiences are the
tools for lifelong learning. Join the Consumer360Experience for 10 minutes to upgrade your
knowledge!

3.00 - 5.00 Pm, A01 / Do It Yourself

Sun, Mar 09

Legislative Theater project


The Legislative Theater was implemented in Netherlands by Luc Opdebeeck (artistic director of Formaat) with many different groups.

During The Museum of Arte Útil Formaat will work in a Legislative project with a group from Eindhoven. De Workshop and rehearsals will be developed in the room of Legislative Change (A-09) in relation with the work of Augusto Boal. During the workshop and rehearsals the public is free to enter and participate. It´s a symbolical translation of Boal´s methodology and a direct practice.

During the workshops the different stories of the participants will be compiled as the starting point for the rest of the process. It will happen during theater exercises. From the public workshop a little group of participants will be selected to continue with the process and work with a Legislative project.



11.00 am - 1.00 pm and 2.30 - 5.00, A09 / Legislative Change

Tue, Mar 11

Performance Joanneke Jouwsma


A room and its objects are always in dialogue. They serve as a third element in a relationship to the ones who are present. By scanning and sensing the room, notions are evokes that include disappearance, stillness, tension, movement and presence. Transformation takes place: the elements fuse, or interact playfully.

11:00 Am – 05:00 Pm, A01 / Performance – Do It Yourself A1

Thu, Mar 13

A Parasitical Breed of Consumer / Performance


This hands-on session, led by Jeannette Petrik, will focus on the action of turning leftover vegetables into sausages, a simple, yet effective preservation method. Unlike their traditional counterparts, these vegetable-based sausages elevate leftover materials which have been discarded as 'waste' to the status of a delicacy as the act of preservation increases the material's use value, while, simultaneously, changing its perceived value. The application of simple skills transforms 'trash' into a useful product - in itself an act of politicizing seemingly innocent, a-political practices of food preparation.
The vegetables used within the workshop are leftovers from Ekoplaza Eindhoven.

Jeanette Petrik will give a lecture on this subject in the Room of Controversies. There she will perform the reading of the text, in around 90 minutes, concerning her activities around 'A Parasitical Breed of Consumer'.

5.00 pm - 7.00 pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Thu, Mar 13

Guided Tour in Spanish


Gemma Medina, researcher and member of Arte Útil team, will lead a guided tour in Spanish for the women of Centro Latinoamericano de Orientación, Eindhoven (C.L.O.). The artist in residence Daniel Godínez Nivón will join us to explain his project and answer any questions. Would you like to practice your spanish language skills?

7.30 - 9.00 pm / Museum of Arte Útil

Thu, Mar 13

The future of the wood / Meeting


During this meeting Arte Útil team members will discuss the proposals they received from users that are interested in re-using the wood employed for the construction of the circular wall and the furniture of the exhibition.

7.00 - 8.30 pm, A 02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Sat, Mar 15

WeTopia / Open workshop


There are many experts and intellectuals who make statements about how our world should be or will be. But we hardly stop and ask ourselves what WE really want in the future and what our ideal world could look like. WeTopia invites YOU to come in to think about what your ‘YouTopia’ would look like. WeTopia aims to start a critical debate and visualise a multi-colored diverse perspective of the world that we would like to live in. Imagination and debate are the first steps to a more pleasant future. Do you have any utopian/ dystopian ideas or just a wild imagination? No particular skills are required - just bring your beautiful human brain. It will be mind enriching and you will meet nice people too. Snacks and drinks will be provided by Eline, the designer and initiator of this project. People of all backgrounds, ages and places are welcome to join!

To sign up, please confirm via the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1503964359830556/declines/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

1.30 - 5.00 Pm, A02 / Light Therapy Room

Sat, Mar 15

An afternoon on Usership with Stephen Wright & Brian Holmes


‘...since we can neither think nor even name art without appropriate terms, retooling our conceptual vocabulary has become a crucial task, one that can only be undertaken by fostering terminological cross-pollination with other avenues of human activity.’
Stephen Wright, 'Toward a Lexicon of Usership', 2013

As part of the Museum of Arte Útil, the Van Abbemuseum commissioned writer and theorist Stephen Wright to compile a lexicon of terms as a means to address the lexical crisis in contemporary culture. Toward a Lexicon of Usership serves as a toolkit for naming a new form of both artistic and political subjectivity - that of usership. Divided into words that Wright feels ‘should be retired’ such as expert culture, ownership and the di-interested spectator alongside ‘emergent concepts’ like 1:1 scale, loopholes and museum 3.0, Wright introduces ‘modes of usership’ that are becoming ever more prevalent and pertinent today: hacking, gaming and the final term of the lexicon - usership, to name just three.

On Saturday 15 March at the Van Abbemuseum critic and theorist Brian Holmes will offer a close reading of Wright’s terms in the context of the Museum of Arte Útil and, more broadly, how art and its institutions can be used today. Holmes and Wright will then consider the merits and implications of producing a lexicon. Is the slipperiness and ill-fitting nature of words today a situation that is best enjoyed without trying to correct it? Or even if lexical repurposing is worthwhile, is usership the right name for all those different subjectivities at work and at play? How about some other words? Here, the afternoon will be opened up to users to offer their own terms, to banish out-moded words or repurpose a vocabulary in a way that we increasingly need – but don’t have – at our disposal.

Part of the Museum of Arte Útil: The afternoon is free for users. Spectators will be charged standard admission fees.

Click here (http://rms.vanabbe.nl/sales/events/register_for_event?event_id=51917&store_lang=true&lang=en) for reservations.

2.30 - 5.00 pm, Van Abbemuseum / Studio

Tue, Mar 18

Discussion with students of the Reinwardt Academie


Students of the Reinwardt Academie will have a discussion in the Light Therapy Room.

11.30 - 12.30 am, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Mar 20

Screening / Shocking Blues & Reggae


Shocking Blues & Reggae is a musical documentary about the Zesde Kolonne band Hard Headed Soul. It is an account of their tour through former Yugoslavia at the end of the Balkan war. On the return trip from Sarajevo the band visit a hospital for mentally disabled patients. As a result of the war the conditions in the sanitarium are terrible. Hard Headed soul decides to play a concert for these 'forgotten' people. The film depicts a penetrating portrait of an audience going completely wild at a punk rock concert and having the time of their lives.
ZK 037 - 1996 - 50 min

A number of short music films and videos from the Zesde Kolonne archive precede these screenings.



7.00 - 8.00 pm Library

Thu, Mar 20

Closed workshop: Philosophy and Art


Carla Bakker will give a closed workshop about Philosophy and Art.
She welcomes her group and visit the exhibition: 'Once upon a time...'
Afterwards they will philosophize about a selected artwork in Museum of Arte Util.



7:00 Pm - 9:00 Pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Mar 20

A Parasitical Breed of Consumer / Performance


This hands-on session, led by Jeannette Petrik, will focus on the action of turning leftover vegetables into sausages, a simple, yet effective preservation method. Unlike their traditional counterparts, these vegetable-based sausages elevate leftover materials which have been discarded as 'waste' to the status of a delicacy as the act of preservation increases the material's use value, while, simultaneously, changing its perceived value. The application of simple skills transforms 'trash' into a useful product - in itself an act of politicizing seemingly innocent, a-political practices of food preparation.
The vegetables used within the workshop are leftovers from Ekoplaza Eindhoven.

Jeanette Petrik will give a lecture on this subject in the Room of Controversies. There she will perform the reading of the text, in around 90 minutes, concerning her activities around 'A Parasitical Breed of Consumer'.

5.00 - 7.00pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Sat, Mar 22

QueerSport.LAB: “Another Sport is possible?!.” / Open workshop – seminar


Prospects for a different sport culture and queer realities by artists and communities, by Željko Blaće in the Light Therapy Room.

In the format of an open seminar/workshop participants will have a chance to learn about critical and creative work related to LGBT/Queer issues in the field of sport. Artists Tom Weller (Berlin), Jason Hall (Brighton) and Željko Blaće (Zagreb) initiated unconventional sport communities, that foster queer emancipation and expression against prevailing homo-phobias and gender discrimination in mainstream institutional sport. This session of QueerSport.LAB will be used to inform on affairs in sport (LGBT/Queer) activism/campaigning and inspire thinking/acting through artistic projects. We will look at videos, installations, interventions and community building projects, but also look at academic research and media coverage of different topics.

Case studies:
# Six months ago a performance of mixed duet (woman and a man) in synchronized swimming was cancelled at the last minute as a demonstration marking the end of the Master swimming competition in Einhoven - making this highly aestheticized sport, even at non-competitive level, a venue for discriminatory tension.
# After several months numerous protest and campaigns against the state of Human Rights in Russia, especially the oppression of LGBT population, media and public attention is building critique to Olympics in Sochi (February 7-23).
# A number of recent events in relation to homophobia in Football have reached climax in past weeks as first high level international football player Thomas Hitzlsperger, outed himself as gay upon retiring. February is the month of activities of “Football vs. Homophobia” campaign supported by UEFA.

contributing artists and communities:
Tom Weller (Berlin, Germany), http://www.tom-weller.de/ & Boxing Girls / Boxing Queers (Berlin, Germany), http://www.boxgirls.org/
Jason Hall (Brighton, UK), http://www.outlinegallery.com/ & The Justin Campaign (Brighton, UK), http://www.thejustincampaign.com/
Željko Blaće (Zagreb, Croatia), http://zeljko.blace.name/ & qSPORT (Zagreb, Croatia), http://www.qsport.info/ http://www.qsport.hr/

Information and application via: zeljko@qsport.info


2.00 - 4.00pm, A02 / Light Therapy Room

Sun, Mar 23

Open workshop: Sing along, with AlaudaVocalis led by Hubert Koniuszek


Sing Along with Alauda Vocalis, accompanied by Hubert Koniuszek in the Light Therapy Room.

Within 4 sessions, during give or take an hour each, 4 Enslish partsongs with different characters will be explored. It will be interesting to experience the influence of the ultramarine light; it will undoubtedly lead to an unexpected experience. Will the room illuminate the singers; will there be shadows? The compositions will be explained in the meantime.

Aluada Vocalis invites everybody to sing along during the sessions and it is possible to take part in more sessions than one. Sheet music is available at the location, and midi’s can be found on Alauda Vocalis’ website: www.kamerkooralaudavocalis.nl, to be used for practice, from the 1st of March. It is recommended, but not obligated to apply for the Sing Along, and it is free of charge.

Information and application on: aluada@xs4all.nl

11:30 Session 1; 12:45 Session 2; 14:00 Session 3; 15:15 Session 4

11:00 am - 5:00 pm, A02 - Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Sun, Mar 23

Flow Painting / Open Workshop


During this open workshop a number of demonstrations will follow. It concerns the technique called Flow Painting. This is a technique where small watersprays, spray oilpaint directly onto the canvas. People are free to join, if they feel like it. Different pigments and oilpaint are the materials of use and the participants are stimulated to simply let the flow, flow. This will result into a painting that expresses feeling in an abstract form.

12:00 - 4:00 pm, A01 / Do it Yourself

Thu, Mar 27

Closed meeting: Budgetkring


Budgetkring Eindhoven will give a kick-off meeting in Museum of Arte Útil.
Accompanied by: Jeanine Schreurs

01:00 Pm - 6:00 pm, A02 / Institutional Repurpose - Light Therapy Room

Thu, Mar 27

Screening / The Tinaja Trail and the Transborder Immigrant Tool


At the USA/Mexican border, the difference between humanitarian service and illegal activity is not always black and white.

Natural water sources in the American Southwest are extremely rare and, where they do exist, often extremely hard to get to (think: bottom of the "Grand Canyon," for instance).
For centuries, survival in this unforgiving land has hinged on one's ability to locate natural cavities or wind-carved cisterns in rocks called tinajas (tee-NAH-hahs). Capturing rain during the rare desert storm, and shaded from the sun, these catch-basins— often only inches across, centimeters deep, and teeming with insects and their larvae— are precious, lifesaving treasures to desert-dwelling animals ... and desert-traversing humans.

It seems reproachfully paradoxical, then, that this region would today host the primary trail of hope for thousands of people seeking gainful work and the promise of a brighter future. It's a desperate journey— one that has cost the lives, and ended the hopes, of hundreds of people per year since 1999.
It is likewise a politically supercharged arena; a legal, moral and political maelstrom poised like a flame near a tinderbox of sentiment.

For years, volunteers have dropped water and aid containers along popular routes of migration and have searched the desert for dying immigrants.
In one case, the Transborder Immigrant Tool presents itself as a technological tinaja: an art project that promises to guide migrants to caches of water placed along migratory trails. http://museumarteutil.net/projects/transborder-immigrant-tool/

"The Tinaja Trail and the Transborder Immigrant Tool" is a film by Bryce Clayton Newell (2013) Length: 20 minutes 9 seconds

6.30-7.00pm
A05 / Room of Controversies


A05 / Room of Controversies

Fri, Mar 28

Special tour and discussion: Hivos and guest artists of The Age of Wonder


A group of six selected artists, social designers and engineers from abroad, accompanied by representatives of Hivos will visit the Museum of Arte Útil. These guest artists are part of a collaboration Baltan Laboratories developed in cooperation with Hivos, international development organization (www.hivos.org). As Hivos' network focus in social innovation, these artists are invited to Eindhoven during the Age of Wonder program (www.ageofwonder.nl) in order to meet counterparts for exchange and new developments.

By meeting and pairing with artists, researchers and scientists from the Baltan Laboratories and creative Eindhoven community, new research projects and experiments are conducted later on this year during an artists-in-residence program.

These artists will visit the Museum of Arte Útil and have an open discussion with Gemma Medina (researcher and member of the curatorial team) about their practices, Arte Útil and the influence of creativity in nowadays changes in societies all over the world.
The guest artists are: Andreas Siagian, based in Yogyakarta (Indonesia); Seterhen Akbar Suriadinata (Saska), based in Bandung (Indonesia); Sandra Suubi Nakitto, based in Kampala (Uganda); Roy Mwangi Ombatti, based in Nairobi (Kenia); David Fernando Marín Roma, based in Guatemala City (Guatemala) and José Montealegre, based in Managua (Nicaragua).

02.00-04.00pm


A05 / Room of Controversies

Fri, Mar 28

Special tour and discussion: Hivos and guest artists of The Age of Wonder


A group of six selected artists, social designers and engineers from abroad, accompanied by representatives of Hivos will visit the Museum of Arte Útil. These guest artists are part of a collaboration Baltan Laboratories developed in cooperation with Hivos, international development organisation (www.hivos.org). As Hivos' network focus in social innovation, these artists are invited to Eindhoven during the Age of Wonder program (www.ageofwonder.nl) in order to meet counterparts for exchange and new developments.

By meeting and pairing with artists, researchers and scientists from the Baltan Laboratories and creative Eindhoven community, new research projects and experiments are conducted later on this year during an artists-in-residence program.

These artists will visit the Museum of Arte Útil and have an open discussion with Gemma Medina (researcher and member of the curatorial team) about their practices, Arte Útil and the influence of creativity in nowadays changes in societies all over the world.
The guest artists are: Andreas Siagian, based in Yogyakarta (Indonesia); Seterhen Akbar Suriadinata (Saska), based in Bandung (Indonesia); Sandra Suubi Nakitto, based in Kampala (Uganda); Roy Mwangi Ombatti, based in Nairobi (Kenia); David Fernando Marín Roma, based in Guatemala City (Guatemala) and José Montealegre, based in Managua (Nicaragua).


2.00 - 4.00 Pm, A05 / Room of Controversies

Sat, Mar 29

Collective painting / Workshop


Two enthousiastic painters will provide a workshop where the crowd will join forces and create one artwork. A big canvas is nailed to the wooden Arte Útil wall, on which the participants will paint. Together with Nicole Verhoeven and Nicole van Herpen, a collective painting is produced on which every participants has had his or her own influence.

12.00 - 17.00 pm, A01 / Do it yourself

Sun, Mar 30

Use and Form-of-Life


Public Reading Session of The Highest Poverty by Giorgio Agamben with Christian Nyampeta, Krijn Pansters, Adrian Rifkin in collaboration with Museum of Arte Útil at Van Abbemuseum.

A habit might better be termed as a form-of-life, in the sense that a “habit”, as in clothing, is not separable from its role in life.
In his latest book The Highest Poverty (2013), Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben brings to light the notion of “habitus” as that which does not distinguish dress from way of living. He takes a close look at Franciscan monastic life, finding that what mattered for the Franciscan community was a form-of-life that “must be liberated from the signature of law and office or duty”: sharing a “habitus” by inhabiting together according to the virtue of “highest poverty”.

Agamben explicates that this notion of “poverty” is the base virtue for a community that emphasizes use. Use here is understood as the abdication of every right to ownership. Furthermore, under concern is not the right to use in the way “the air and the sunlight are common to all in the sense that they are common only according to common use” but “use in itself”. This notion of use seems to connect with, and yet differ from, the notion of use in the Museum of Art Útil. Through the reading of Agamben’s book, we would like to explore the connection between different notions of use and build connections with ways or “forms” of life.

The reading group is a two-day communal, experimental, and inquisitive journey joined by: Krijn Pansters, Franciscan scholar of Tilburg University’s School of Catholic Theology and Franciscan Study Centre, Utrecht; Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London; and Christian Nyampeta, an artist based in London. The sessions include a lecture on Franciscan spirituality, reading together and discussions, a screening on Franciscan life, and a “habit”-making workshop.

If you are interested in alternatives to the current mode of religious, artistic, or political practice, this might be an opportunity for you to look at a new terrain of practices, or “forms of life”, that are earnest, engaging, and hopeful.
Use and Form of Life is initiated by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory and organized with the Museum of Arte Útil exhibition at Van Abbemuseum.

Participation is free but reservation is necessary. To save your place please e-mail Suzanne Tiemersma (suzanne@cascoprojects.org).

29 March 2014, 13:00-21:00 hrs, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht (Casco’s new building, pre-renovated state)

30 March 2014, 11:00-16:00 hrs, Van Abbemuseum, Bilderdijklaan 10, Eindhoven (last day of Museum of Arte Útil)
1.00 pm - 2.00 pm, A05 / Room of Controversies
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm, A01 / Do it Yourself




Sun, Mar 30

Fool’s Gold: donating data for future analysts / Open workshop


Fool’s Gold is about the data people (un)willingly share and what use is made of it. Artist and researcher Freyja van den Boom explores the interaction between law and society. She invites people to volunteerly 'donate' their data for future analysts by filling in endeless surveys. The aim of this project is to examine people’s willingness and care when it comes to privacy versus curiosity and convenience.


4.00 - 5.00 Pm, A01 / Do It Yourself