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Masquerade (installation) & lecture at Precarity as Fuel


Saturday April 30, 2-5:00pm & 7:30-10pm

Afternoon workshop and evening program, organized by Roel Griffioen and Abel Heijkamp in collaboration with Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory .

The age of the post-war welfare state, in which the state offered some degree of protection and security in exchange for governmental legitimacy, is over. Insecurity is employed to fuel economic development, urban innovation, or to generate fluidity in the housing market. Meanwhile, project-based work, flexible contracts, low and irregular wages, and vulnerable living conditions become the standard. In times of isolation and de-solidarization, how can we propose new forms of collective living, of political agency? Can precarity be polarized?

These questions, as well as similar ones, will first be assessed in practice-oriented workshop (14:00-17:00, on invitation) on the precarization of working and living.

The evening program (19:30-22:00 open for all) will be more theoretical in nature, and will feature an introduction by organizer Roel Griffioen on precarity and the so-called creative class, presentations by geographer Carla Huisman (University of Groningen) and by poet Frank Keizer. The evening will conclude with a talk by artists Vermeir & Heiremans, followed by a screening of their new film Masquerade (2015).

Please rsvp for this event by sending an e-mail to Ying Que at ying@cascoprojects.org.

The event is organized within the framework of the independent research project The Front Line.

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