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"House Rules?" as part of Becoming More at the Van Abbemuseum

Toxic Assets Day 1: Toxic Languages.
As part of an exhibition and public seminar in New York City hosted by e-flux and Columbia University

With Brian Kuan Wood, "Creative Glass Warfare"
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Toxic Assets and the Extimacy"
Tara Crichlow, When You Pray, Move Your Feet: The Legacy of Marjory Smarth
and Demian DinéYazhi’, An Infected Sun


Toxic Assets Day 2:
Part 1: Frontier Properties

With Bonita Ely, The Locust People, 1974
Rachel O’Reilly, “Mirror, Curtain, Indemnity?: Settler Topsoil Citizen-Ships, Redacted”
Cassie Fennell, “Ends of the House”
and Moderator: Alan Michelson


Toxic Assets Day 2:
Part 2: Volatile Properties

With Decolonize This Place—MTL, 2017. Image and video contribution.
Laura Harris, “Fermentation and the Cut: Gordon Matta- Clark, Martine Barrat and Vickie Alvarez in the South Bronx”
Greg Tate (voiced by Shelly Nicole), “Code Blackety Black On Black Boom Diggety Properties: The Power of Vernacular Cryptologies”
Jaskiran Dhillon, “Indigenous Youth, Urban Realities, and Toxic Embodiment”
and Moderator: Constantina Zavitsanos


Toxic Assets Day 2:
Part 3: Vital Properties

With Maria Hupfield, Untitled (Slide Show), 2017
Angela Mitropoulos (voiced by Max Fox), “The Art and Performance of Life: Movements, Un/Common Forms and Infrastructure”
Neferti X. M. Tadiar, “Powers of Expending Life”
and Moderator: Simon Leung


Toxic Assets Day 2:
Part 4: Rebellious Properties

With Ryan Presley, Crown Land (To the Ends of the Earth), 2016
Jonathan Beller, “Derivative Living Under the Regime of Informatic Subsumption"
Yazan Khalili & David Kim, I, the Artwork, 2016
and Moderator: Elizabeth A. Povinelli


Toxic Assets Day 3: Toxic Sovereignty

With Richard Bell, Embassy, 2013 – ongoing Adania Shibli, “A Play in One Act, and Many More” Windjarrameru, The Stealing C#nt$ (2015), Karrabing Film Collective Richard Bell in conversation with Karrabing Film Collective (Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Sheree Bianamu, Gavin Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Rex Sing, Linda Yarrowin, Ethan Jorrock, Elizabeth Povinelli)and responses by Christian Nyampeta, Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Julieta Aranda

1// Who's Global, Who's Local
Saturday 25 November 2017 by Vivian Ziherl, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Anne Breure (Veem) held at the Veem theatre in Amsterdam


Morning Session
with Rachel O'Reilly, Despina Zefkili & Ahmed Veriava

Rachel O’Reilly & Danny Butt:
Desedimentation, Delamination, Deconstruction

Despina Zefkili:
Energy and sustainability – “the southern perspective”

Ahmed Veriava:
Provincialising work


Afternoon Session
Who's Global, who's Local? - plenum with Club Solo – represented by Thomas Bakker and Iris Bouwmeester, Charles Esche, Natasha Ginwala, Lara Khaldi, Carol Yinghua Lu, Alan Michelson and Sabina Sabolović.

2// Precarious Practices
Sunday 26 November 2017 by Vivian Ziherl, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Gabriëlle Schleijpen


Morning Session
with Antonia Majaca, Bassam El Baroni & Tiziana Terranova

Antonia Majaca
no documentation

Tiziana Terranova:
Competition and cooperation in social cybernetics

Bassam El Baroni:
The Post-Agonistic Institution: Art, Democracy, and the Curatorial


Afternoon Session
Precarious Practices -plenum with Matthijs de Bruine, Maria Hlavajova: Heejin Kim, Imara Limon, Manuela Moscoso, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim and Natalia Valencia. Moderated by Anne Szefer Karlsen and Vivian Ziherl.


Evening Session
The danceable lecture: Sobredosis de amor created by Ericka Florez with Hernán Barón in 2014.