What is this world? connects many perspectives on and of the world, and to explore and exchange these different perspectives in dialogue, in the format of a live reality tv set.
09.01 - 20.02 2022
PARK, platform for contemporary visual arts,Tilburg

Our text Speechless: Some Notes About Birds, in this beautiful 436 pages thick book, to be published december 20, 2021, pre-order here. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, published by K.Verlag and HKW

These Birds of Temptation. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. With contributions by Eddie Bartley, Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, David Bonter, Xavi Bou, Tiffany Bozic, Lêna Bùi, Bertolt Brecht, Wallace Craig, Mark Dion, Andreas Doepke, Jimmie Durham, Anne Geene, Sophia Gräfe, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Nina Katchadourian, Bernie & Kat Krause, Barbara Marcel, Anaïs Nin, Arjan de Nooy, Megan Prelinger, John Paul Ricco, David Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, Bruno Schulz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Frank Steinheimer, Yoko Tawada, Anna Tsing, Etienne Turpin, and Francesca Woodman. Design in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.
English
436 pages
ISBN 978-3-9818635-4-3
K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in December 2021

A dérive through Casablanca, history and minds. A public programme by Bik van der Pol in two parts, November 2021, and June 2022.

Throughout November, meetings, discussions, lunchess and dérives will be taking place in Casablanca with various cultural actors, such as Bert Flint, Mamma Group, Mohamed Rachdi, Kenza Sefrioui, Sabrina Kamili, Florence Darsi, Maud Houssais, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Maria Karim, Mohamed Jibril, Mehdi Azdem.
In June 2022, as an extension of their artistic practice focused on encounter and collaboration, BIk Van der Pol invites Fatima Mazmouz to embody Casablanca mon amour- Résistants, 2014-2018.
The School of Casablanca is a collaborative project that takes as its starting point the legacy of the Casablanca Art School and its innovative pedagogical methods and exhibition strategies in 1960s Morocco.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Marokko and ThinkArt, initiate a collaborative venture 2020–2022/23 revolving around the approach of Casablanca Art School—a school that developed innovative education and exhibition strategies in 1960s Morocco. During a residency in Casablanca between 2021–2022/23, artists will conduct research, produce new work, and create a public program focused on the subject(s) addressed in their research.
With Céline Condorelli, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Marion von Osten †, Manuel Raeder, Bik Van der Pol, and Abdeslam Ziou Ziou.

Cahier and Webinar on Universal Basic Income (Dutch only)Hollandse Meesters
CENTRE PARRHÈSIA, The Society of the Friends...AND
16 Beaver Group
The Lab
Naomi Klein in Intercept
SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM MEETS THE CORONAVIRUS SHOCK DOCTRINE
disobedient objects: everyday items that have been turned to a new purpose
TURN ON, TUNE IN, COP OUT By Steven Warwick, Texte Zur Kunst
Seth Siegelaub: The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement (1971)
A New Bauhaus? The Debate for a More Inclusive Europe, by Hicham Khalidi en Rolando Vázquez

Mosaic interdisciplinary critical journal invites you to join Relative Time/Little Time Speaker Series, a series of digital lectures via Zoom on what we could call relative time and its possibilities, developed in collaboration between Shep Steiner with Bik Van der Pol. The lectures will concentrate on the flow or pace of current time, especially in relation to past time. VIEW PAST LECTURES HERE

With:
Frédéric Neyrat (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Heliopolitics (Or How to Cure an Amnesiac Sun)”: September 17, 1:00pm CDT
Erin Manning (Concordia University), “The Untimely Impersonal”: September 22, 12:30pm CDT
Jonas Staal: Friday, October 8, 2021

Registration is required. Please register by emailing mosatemp@umanitoba.ca. Please indicate which lecture(s) you wish to attend. A link to the Zoom meeting will be provided to registrants on the day before each lecture.

Future speakers: 2022
Dominic Pettman
Paul Huebener
Etienne Turpin & Anna-Sophie Springer
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Andrea Robbins & Max Becher
Steven Duval & Marina McDougall
Arthur Anyaduba, Melanie Braith, Sean Matharoo, & Melanie Unrau

Interview with Bik Van der Pol by Lucie Kolb & Gabriel Flückiger in Issue 21 (New) Institution(alism), Both a radical and mild change
The Chorus and the Contemporary Ruin by Maeve Connolly
See: Public Arena

Dissolving Matter and Value deals with transitions from one (material) state to another and the processes of increase in value, loss of value and consumption that take place. The focus lies on the normative assumptions and the social codes that separate the valuable from the worthless. Which relationships between ecology and economy, geo and ego are produced? What is used to achieve what? What is available?What happens when value declines?
With Helin Alas, BikVanderPol, Vilte Bražiunaite & Tomas Sinkevicius, Barbara Kapusta, Robert Keil, Judith Neunhäuserer, Nina Radelfahr, at Lothringer 13 Halle, An art space of the city of Munich

In collaboration with TAAK and Public Art Amsterdam, Bik Van der Pol are developing Don't Fence Me In: a film, a public program and a research platform. This project responds to the removal of the fence around the building from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) in Amsterdam, to make way to create a more transparent appearance of the building. The fencing to which the artwork of Peter Struycken is attached becomes redundant, because of the relocation of the banknotes and gold-stock from DNB to Zeist. Bik Van der Pol's research focusses on (the illusion of) visible and invisible fences that give or deny access.

The School of Missing Studies started in 2003 as a collective made-up of artists and architects, who recognized the missing as a matter of urgency in public space and how cultural education was so close yet so far removed from cultural production. They investigated what cultures laid the foundations for the loss that we are experiencing from modernization, and how we can learn from this loss. The School of Missing Studies is calling for a space to turn existing knowledge against itself to affect our capacity to see things otherwise, to trust that seeing, and to set our own pedagogical terms.

The School of Missing Studies is initiated by Bik Van der Pol, Srdjan Janovics Weiss and Sabine Von Fischer. In 2013-2015 it was temporarily recreated for programming at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam as a one-off, two year master Program. It also became the subject of the Sandberg Institutes first publication in this new cultural series, with essays by Liz Allan, Bik van der Pol, Charles Esche, E.C. Feiss, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Sarah Pierce, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, and Nato Thompson.
School of Missing Studies
School of Missing Studies, Turning a Blind Eye
School of Missing Studies, facebook
School of Missing Studies, Sandberg Institute
School of Missing Studies in Social Text Journal
The Lost Highway Expedition, 2006
The Lost Highway Expedition
Lost Highway Expedition Photobook
Conversation with Srdjan J. Weiss
blogspot by Srdjan J. Weiss and Katherine Carl
Teasing Minds
Ceci n’est pas une école d’art Catherine Somzé
School of Missing Studies at Lodgers. MuHKA and AIR Antwerpen

Take Part is a project by Bik Van der Pol, seeks to create a shared public vision of the city by anchoring discussions about its past, present and future, to the tangible: a 1000 square foot detailed wooden scale model of the city built in the late 1930s by the WPA under the New Deal program.
(due to coronacrisis the final stage of this project is postponed)
San Francisco model on David Rumsey's website
SFMOMA
Stories from the model city and 99percentinvisible
on Living New Deal
SF WAP model at Libraries