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Sociaal-realisme of zelfcensuur
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11/04/2012
Sociaal-realisme of zelfcensuur
Met Jonas Staal schreef BAVO een pleidooi voor een nieuw sociaal-realisme in de kunst. Sociaal-realisme is broodnodig in het tijdperk van de hysterische reproductie.
21/02/2012
Nu ook een schreeuw om architectuur!
Niet occupy-en, maar de gevestigde orde verleiden om in crisistijden te investeren in leuke projecten. Lees hier meer over de Studio for Unsollicited Architecture.
21/11/2011
Waarom kunstenaars niet fascistisch genoeg zijn
Lees het artikel in het decembernummer van Rekto:Verso.
29/08/2011
Artist Participation in South Africa
The international PR campaign to showcase Rotterdam's robust policy on artist participation is now also tapping into the emerging African art markets.
17/06/2011
Denkverbod op liberale kunst
Column over de stellingenoorlog naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde bezuinigingen in de cultuursector.
07/06/2011
Maak liberaal kunstbeleid liberaal
Lees BAVO's advies aan staatssecretaris Zijlstra met betrekking tot de noodgedwongen keuzen die de cultuursector in Nederland te wachten staat.
18/03/2011
International promotion campaign of the Office for Artist Participation kicks off
The City of Edinburgh will be the first to host an international promotion event of Rotterdam's innovative cultural policies for enforcing the participation of artists in heightening a city's competitiveness and securing social peace on the local level.
28/02/2011
Culture and Contestation
The essay 'Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism' is published in the book volume 'Culture and Contestation in the New Century'.
19/01/2011
Art and Activism
BAVO's essay 'Artists... one more effort to be really political!' is published in the volume 'Art and Activism in the age of Globalisation'.
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27/03/2012
Architecten voor Gent
24/03/2012
Even agrier and kinder
29/02/2012
Architectures of exclusion
13/01/2012
1:1 Extra City
06/12/2011
Primacy of Change
23/11/2011
Lezing Project Baksteen
11/11/2011 - 12/11/2011
(Anti)neoliberal architecture in Graz
25/10/2011
Hybridisering en academisering
30/09/2011 - 01/10/2011
The long march towards artist participation in South Africa
09/09/2011 - 10/09/2011
De nieuwe elite in Amsterdam
01/09/2011
Sustainable urban change in Stockholm
30/08/2011 - 31/08/2011
The architect as a human-being / EAAE Conference, Crete
05/05/2011
Bevrijdingsfestival
14/04/2011
Architecture of shared time
16/03/2011
Chto Delat? and Etcetera
Connecting collectivity, friendship, collaboration and mutual inspiration | Mediated by Gideon Boie
18/01/2011 - 28/01/2011
Debatten 'Cultureel activisme vandaag'
In zaal De Unie en het SMBA vinden in januari 2011 twee debatten plaats over BAVO's recente boek 'Too Active to Act'.
09/11/2010
Kunstenaarsparticipatie aan het KASK
BAVO presenteert de proeven van het Actieprogramma Kunstenaarsparticipatie voor Gent.
25/10/2010 - 26/10/2010
Duurzaam internationaal kunstenbeleid in Vlaanderen?
BAVO participeert aan de conferentie Joining the dots in BOZAR
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CULTURAL ACTIVISM TODAY mission statement
Contemporary art seems to be caught in the blackmail typical for this self-acclaimed age of the End of History. On the one hand, the artist is elevated into ‘the One’who relentlessly confronts society with its shortcomings and uses his creative intelligence to dream up new ideals. At the same time however, s/he is constantly reminded that this critical and utopian activity should remain‘constructive’– a coded way of saying that it should not fundamentally question the triumphant onward march of representative democracy and the freemarket. No wonder that art today threatens to be reduced to a purely empty exercise that, as Fukuyama claims, offers the last men an escape from their petty bourgeois existence.
The central question of the project Cultural Activism Today is whether, and how, art can escape this suffocating situation.
