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The 21st Biennale of Sydney will examine the state of ‘superposition’ by examining how it might operate in the world today. We are surrounded by conflicting ideas across all levels of humanity: different cultures; readings of nature and the universe; political ideologies and systems of government; interpretations of human history, the history of art and definitions of contemporary art.

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CCS Bard is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices. In order to make the actual production of art a more palpable part of the graduate program, the Center initiated an artist-in-residence program which allows for one or more artists to spend from a semester to a year at the CCS making new work and engaging with the program in other ways. Research residency for the development of new work.

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Syndrome of the Present is a research based project that aspires to establish a collaborative, cross disciplinary platform, shared between artists and experts from diverse geographies and disciplines, which enables collective thinking in order to analyze the present’s syndrome and the present as syndrome. Participants: Oreet Ashery, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Marc David Baer, Melis Birder, Yael Bartana, Ayse Cavdar, Yael Davids, Marjolijn Dijkman, Koken Ergun,  Amir Engel, Gil Hochberg, Alexander van der Haven, Natasa Ilic, Savas Michael Matsas, Yolande Jansen, Bik Van der Pol, Pawel Maciejko, Erden Kosova, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Danielle Riou, Julian Reid, Roee Rosen, Dimitris Stamatopoulo and Artur Zmijewski. Curated by Galit Eilat.

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Wandering stars have occupied the human mind across centuries and millennia, along with the quest to explore and colonize cosmic space. Is there something in us that refuses to believe that we are alone in the universe? Does our longing for the stars conceal something different? To what extent can fiction shape future realities?

The construction of such inquiries are at the centre of Marjolijn Dijkman’s work, which pivots around humankind’s fascination for cosmic space, the position of our planet in the universe, and human subjectivity in relation to celestial bodies. Radiant Matter comprises a series of recent artworks that desire to analyse and reflect on the nature of scientific inquiry, the role of speculation, fiction and spiritualism.

Together with a poetic image essay and a conversation between the artist and the editor Kris Dittel, this widely illustrated book includes texts by Maarten Vanden Eynde, Ken Hollings and Raqs Media Collective.

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Radiant Matter is the first duo exhibition of work by Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde. It brings together objects, sculptures, a video and photos that explore the complex relation between the impact of the human on its environment and vice versa. Accompanied by a book launch of ‘Radiant Matter’ by Marjolijn Dijkman, published by Onomatopee and edited by Kris Dittel, on the 25th of November.

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CCS Bard is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices. In order to make the actual production of art a more palpable part of the graduate program, the Center initiated an artist-in-residence program which allows for one or more artists to spend from a semester to a year at the CCS making new work and engaging with the program in other ways. > Research to be continued spring 2018.

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Researchers night with amongst others: Birkeland’s Northern Lights Experiment, presentations of Modern Space Physicists, artists talk about meetings between Art and Science, opening of the Aurora Polaris Exhibition. With: Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Are Raklev, Toril Johannessen, Marjolijn Dijkman, Thale Sørlie, Koka Nikoladze, Maria Hammerstrøm, Anna Follestad, Anders Kvellestad og André Granum.

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Group exhibition with: Guillaume André, Pierre Balandier, Claude Boudeau, Adrien Colin, Gérald Colomb, Amandine Courtois, Nicolas Daubanes, Marjolijn Dijkman, Thomas Fontaine, Magdalena Gerber, Per Hüttner, Jo Errant, King’s Queer, Justyna Koeke, Adeline Leprêtre, Marie Minary, Monsieur Bidule, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Nushy Soup, Thomas Perrin, Florence Picard, Collectif RADA, Lois Renou & Rodrigue Guillot-Cressant, Romuald & PJ, Anna Schuster & Sara Focke-Levin, Jérôme Vaspard, Jean-Luc Verna, Didier Viodé, Dana Wyse, Lulu Zhang.

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After more than twenty-five years as Casco, Casco Projects, and finally Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, we are changing our name to Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. The title heralds our new modus operandi, presented initially in the form of an exhibition that opens on 26 May 2017. With this change we aim to act on our political-aesthetical intentions and face their urgencies with “working for the commons” as the guiding imperative for all Casco operations.

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The LUNÄ Talk: Triangular Trade – Cotton will concentrate on the influence of cotton production and trade in relation to the abolition of slavery and colonisation / decolonisation, both historically and as an ongoing influence on contemporary global economy. With: Helen Elands (Art Historian), Wouter Elsen (Film- and Photo Journalist), Dr. Patricia Fara (Historian of Science), Remy Jungerman (Artist), Karin Lurvink (Researcher on Dutch Republic transatlantic slave-based activities), Prof. Dr. Eric Vanhaute (Prof. Economic and Social History and World History), Maarten Vanden Eynde (Artist) and Marjolijn Dijkman (Artist).

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Invited contributors: Prof. Sven Beckert (author of ‘Empire of Cotton, A Global History’ / Harvard University, US ), Prof. Peter Pels (anthropologist, Leiden University, NL), Christine Chivallon (anthropologist and directrice de recherche au CNRS, FR), Helen Elands (art historian, independent researcher, UK), Alioum Moussa (artist, CM), Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde (artist and co-hosts, BE).

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The phrase “Why Not Ask Again” is a bid, and a query, whose ascending, joyously twisting arc embraces the maneuvers, disputations and stories that contain and encode the turbulences and transports of our time. A listener eavesdropping on deep space walks out of the pages of the recent sci-fi novel, The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. A wanderer steps out into the deep time of eternity and the straight path of a police bullet in the terminal sequence of the picaresque Bengali film Jukti, Takko aar Gappo from 1974 by Ritwik Ghatak. They embody the spirit of a mobile triangulation between reason, intuition and the fabulous that the Biennale seeks to discover, transmit, and learn from. Chief curators – Raqs Media Collective.

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In 2017, Artefact looks at the Act of Magic. From poetry to strategy, from magical object to obscure systems, from harmless distraction to manipulation: the artists in The Act of Magic investigate what enchants us today.

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Even though when we look into outer space, what we see are light sources, carriers of traces from the past, we associate outer space with the future. This projection screen of human destiny has evolved into the ambition to conquer and colonise cosmic space, escaping the possible disastrous developments on Earth. For many ‘visionaries’ the only way for humankind to survive is to expand human territories to the Universe.

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In conjunction with “We are the Center for Curatorial Studies”, this two month series reflects upon and proposes new directions for an institution of curatorial practice. Guided by artist projects, this fictional center takes the medium of the exhibition as pivotal to its futures. With: Can Altay, David Blamey, Katarina Burin, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Harold Offeh, William McKeown, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Richard Venlet, Grace Weir, and others.

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With: Can Altay, Martin Beck, David Blamey, Gerard Byrne, Nina Canell, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Sara Cwynar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Heilmann, James Hoff, Vlatka Horvat, Matt Keegan, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Williw McKeown, Ulrike Müller, Museum of American Art Berlin, Brian O’Doherty, Harold Offeh, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Falke Pisano, Elizabeth Price, Richard Venlet, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Grace Weir, Arseny Zhilyaev, and others. Curated by Paul O’Neill.
THE VISITOR TALKS – Marjolijn Dijkman: Oct. 5 – 2016, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. at CCS Bard.

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Antenna Futura convenes contemporary artistic positions that explore a realistic-imminent or a phantastic-distant future. Scientific contributions and workshops on the topic will take place in the framework of the exhibition.

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In this exhibition the visitor travels to France with Jan Sluijters and to Spain with Leo Gestel, but also to Indonesia with Isaac Israels, to America with Adrian Lubbers and to the North Pole with Louis Apol. Scores of travel-fevered artists vie for attention, with attention to painting, travel sketches, sculptural work, but also photography, installation and video. With works of contemporary artists like: Joost Conijn, Jan Dibbets, Bertien van Manen, Rob Birza, Jennifer Tee and Roy Villevoye.

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The second LUNÄ Talk in Drenthe this year, organised with Land Art Contemporary, takes place at ASTRON. On the table lies the question of how science, philosophy and religion relate to each other, focusing on topics such as ‘deep evolution’, the (re)writing of history and speculative future developments in astronomy, anthropology, philosophy and religion. Among the guests: Professor Astronomy Michael Garrett, Professor Anthropology Peter Pels, artist Daniela de Paulis, philosopher of religion and theologian Taede A. Smedes. Hosted by artist Marjolijn Dijkman.

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Third Nature questions how we live dependent upon what lies in-between us: infrastructure is the given answer to the question of how worlds are constituted. The exhibition explores how it feels to function in a world governed by infrastructure, through forms of divination, imagination and speculation. Curated by Laura Herman. With: Nina Canell, Marjolijn Dijkman, Femke Herregraven, Basim Magdy, Suzanne Treister.

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With Marjolijn Dijkman, Laura Herman, Femke Herregraven, Brian Larkin, Basim Magdy, Nader Vossoughian, and Clare Lyster. Definition Series: Infrastructure, curated by Laura Herman, invites scholars, artists, and critics to discuss contemporary implications of this omnipresent term.

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This first of a series of LUNÄ Talks in Drenthe discusses the question of how science and fiction relate to each other, focusing on topics such as deep time / space in the disciplines of geology, archaeology and astronomy and the imagination of these fields in the arts. Among the guests include curator of Zone2Source Alice Smits, astronomer Roy Smits from ASTRON / Camras, curator archaeology Jaap Beuker from the Drents Museum, artist Maarten Vanden Eynde, physical geographer Enno Bregman (Province Drenthe & Utrecht University) and artist Marjolijn Dijkman.

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Exhibition part of AFO 51. AFO is currently one of the most important European festivals in the area of popular science film. It aims to present science as an attractive, dynamic and diverse sector through films charting natural, humanities and social science disciplines.

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The artists participating in this project have been asked to produce a work that will somehow define the central or peripheral qualities of the location, be it from geographical, political or social perspectives, and possibly come up with different interpretations and ideas for land use.

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