Maria Hlavajova

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Rachael Rakes

Combining handbook, dictionary, and anthology, investigations and examples of artistic practices aimed at social change. This volume from BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, combines handbook, dictionary, and anthology to investigate artistic practice aimed at achieving social change. With text and visual essays, definitions, exercises, interviews, and images, the contributors envision a praxis that is committed to experimenting with aesthetics and politics in ways that go beyond the conventions of Western modernity. These are practices that are interdisciplinary, theoretically informed, and politically driven, offering ways of "being together otherwise." Catalyzed by the work of artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, which focuses on radicalizing civic processes, Toward the Not-Yet imagines and enacts alternative ways of conceiving the present and future. Contributors, among them notable artists, scholars, activists, and writers consider ways of participating in civic life, including "dreamscaping" and "radical listening"; the creation of safer spaces for humans and nonhumans; ways of radically shifting laws and policies; and tactics and methods of collective sanctuary. Toward the Not-Yet is part of BAK's series of BASICS readers, debuting a SUPERBASICS variation that is larger, with more visual content. Copublished with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst

Art as Public Practice

Toward the Not-Yet

Rasmus Ugilt

Reflections on Economy and Public Life

We Just Talk

Situated in downtown Columbus, Ohio, "Face Your World," concieved by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, involves a bus outfitted as a digital lab for children, sculptural bus stops designed by Atelier van Lieshout, and the Interactor, newly created computer software developed in collaboration with V2_Lab that encourages participating children to redesign their neighborhoods and their city together. As a publication, "Face Your World" adapts aspects of the city guidebook format to provide commentary about the project and serve as a guide to it.

Face Your World

Ine Gevers

Met bijdragen van: Oscar van Alphen, Ute Meta Bauer & Yvonne P. Doderer, Marianne Brouwer, Martin Lucas, Adrian Piper, Simon Critchley, Helmut Draxler, Jean Fisher, Avital Geva, Tijs Goldschmidt, Roy Villevoye, Multiple Autorenschaft, Jouke Kleerebezem, Viktor Misiano, Everlyn Nicodemus, fordacity, Sadie Plant, Martha Rosler, Rob Schröder, Jorinde Seijdel, Barbara Steiner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ross Sinclair en de samenstellers van deze bundel beschouwingen.

Jeanne van Heeswijk

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