Casco (Utrecht) Explained

Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons
Location:	Lange Nieuwstraat 7 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Formation:	1990
Type:	Non-profit organization
Leader Title:	Artistic Director
Leader Name:	Aline Hernández
Leader Title2:	Executive Director
Leader Name2:	Marianna Takou

Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons is a non-profit public art institution based in Utrecht, Netherlands.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3] In 2007, the institute moved to a new location on the Nieuwekade, designed by (institute for applied urbanism) and Jesko Fezer.^[4] 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.^[5]

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 and Ingo Niermann "Army of Love", and Heman Chong and Renée Staal, "The Library of Unread Books"
• 2016 Alex Martinis Roe, "To Become Two"
• 2016 Wok The Rock, "Parasite Lottery"
• 2015 Group Exhibition: "We Are the Time Machines: Time and Tools for Commoning"
• 2015 Adelita Husni-Bey, "White Paper: The Law" and Fernano Garcìa-Dory, "INLAND"
• 2014 Melanie Gilligan, "The Common Sense" and The Otolith Group, "In the Year of the Quiet Sun"
• 2014 Wendelien van Oldenborgh receives prestigious Dr AH Heiniken Prize for Art
• 2014 Inaugural Exhibition, "New Habits"
• 2013 Tadasu Takamine, "Japan Syndrome - Utrecht Version"
• 2012 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, "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, "If you Lived Here Still..."
• 2009 Metahaven, "Stadtstaadt. A Scenario for Merging Cities"
• 2008 Fritz Haeg, "Animal Estates 6.0"
• 2008 Ricardo Basbaum, "Re-projecting (Utrecht)"
• 2008 Stephen Willats, "The Speculative Diagram"
• 2007 Dave Hullfish Bailey, "What's left for its own devices (on reclamation)"
• 2007 Annette Krauss, "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^[6]

See also

• List of contemporary art spaces in the Netherlands

Notes and References

1. Web site: Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory. E-flux Magazine.
2. Web site: Metropolis M » Magazine » 2006-No2 » When the citizens see ghosts. metropolism.com. 2015-06-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20160523102928/http://metropolism.com/magazine/2006-no2/wanneer-burgers-spoken-zien/english. 2016-05-23. dead.
3. Web site: Metropolis M » Features » Interview with Binna Choi (CASCO). metropolism.com. 2015-06-30.
4. Web site: ifau und Jesko Fezer HEIDE & VON BECKERATH ArchMarathon . www.archmarathon.it . 2015-06-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150630230006/http://www.archmarathon.it/ifau-und-jesko-fezer-heide-von-beckerath/ . 2015-06-30 .
5. Web site: Launch day Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons - Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com. en. 2018-06-19.
6. Book: Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook. 2014. Casco. Netherlands. 9789078088929.