features 01.12.11
Have a look at the first episode of the sitcom Our Autonomous Life?, a new Casco production within the framework of The Grand Domestic Revolution.
features 27.05.11 Sanneke Huisman
Maria Hlavajova discusses the project Call the Witness, which adresses the situation of the Roma within European culture and society.The project has an exhibition platform in both BAK in Utrecht and in the Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, opening on June 1st.
features 08.12.10 Jolien Verlaek
Utrecht
Casco
04/12/10 - 13/02/11
How do we learn to see? Natasha Sadr Haghighian and Ashkan Sepahvand for the institute for incongruous translation talk about their research project, which is on view since December 4th in Utrecht.
'Rabih! Rabih!'
Rabih Mroué in BAK
reviews 22.07.10 Nat Muller
Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
21/05/10 - 01/08/10
Witness, narrator, chronicler, participant and agent. In I, the Undersigned, Rabih Mroué's first solo-exhibition as a visual artist, he questions the role of the artist in the charged context of post-war Lebanon, focusing on the political and historical amnesia.
previews 16.04.10 Jolien Verlaek
Utrecht
BAK
16/04/10 - 17/04/10
Dancing seems to be a popular medium in contemporary art institutions these days. In the context of the current Springdance festival in Utrecht, BAK presents a ‘musée de la danse’, which involves an exhibition without objects. METROPOLIS M talks to BAK curator Cosmin Costinaş on his considerations for the exhibition.
Rietveld ignored
a performance by Ruth Buchanan
reviews 15.07.09 Sarah Farrar
Utrecht
Casco, Rietveld Schröder huis
18/06/09 - 21/06/09
Ruth Buchanan acts as tourguide to the Rietveld Schröder house in her performance Nothing Is Closed—Lying Freely Part I for Casco.
features 06.08.08 Domeniek Ruyters
Former BAK curator Binna Choi from South Korea has been appointed as the new director of CASCO, Office for Art, Design and Theory. Metropolis M spoke with her about her switch from one Utrecht institution to another.
When the citizens see ghosts
The Uninvited by Judith Hopf
23/04/06 Claudia Wahjudi
Strange things happen to a young German couple out and about in Berlin. Chairs spontaneously begin to move, a corpse’s eyes spring open. Judith Hopf uses the language of the horror genre in her documentary The Uninvited, to mock contemporary society’s obsession with safety.