Wietske Maas

NEWS

• Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent, edited by Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press, 2019. Contributors: Rosi Braidotti, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Jota Mombaça, and Thiago de Paula Souza, Forensic Architecture, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Patricia Kaersenhout and Lukáš Likavčan, Sven Lütticken, Jumana Manna, Dan McQuillan, Shela Sheikh, Eyal Weizman, Mick Wilson.

• Courageous Citizens: How Culture Contributes to Social Change, edited by Bas Lafleur, Wietske Maas, and Susanne Mors, Valiz, 2018. Contributors: John Akomfrah, Borderland Foundation, Rosi Braidotti, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Bojana Cvejić, Fatima El-Tayeb, Pascal Gielen, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Stefan Kaegi, Ivan Krastev, Wietske Maas, Marina Naprushkina, Lia Perjovschi, Saskia Sassen, Ana Vujanović, Katherine Watson.

• Fleeting Territories group exhibition curated by Maren Richter and Klaus Schafler at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, 29 September 2017–9 December 2017.

• “The Corruption of the Eye” in Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art, edited by Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, and Brian Kuan Wood, Verso, 2017.

• “The Vegetal Grotesque: How Plants Metabolize our Gaze,” Rongwrong, Amsterdam, 27 May 2017 as part of Like the deserts miss the rain exhibition by Beny Wagner.

• Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989, BAK, basis actuele kunst and MIT Press, 2016 (Release date: March 2017).

• Urbanibalism entry in Posthuman Glossary, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, Bloomsbury, 2017.

• “The Murder of a Buttercup” (a translation of and preamble to “Die Ermordung einer Butterblume” by Alfred Döblin) as part of Botanical Drift: Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium, edited by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Sternberg Press, 2017.

RECENT

• FORMATIONS (conceived by Melanie Sehgal and Alex Martinis Roe) is a working group of practitioners from various disciplines. Workshops will be held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin throughout 2015 and early 2016 with the aim of collectively experimenting new political practices that traverse accustomed habits of thought.

• Corruption: Everybody Knows… Exhibition curated by Natasha Ginwala. E-flux gallery 11 November – 19 December 2015. New York Times review  (3 December 2015).

• Lecture/introduction to Urbanibalism in the framework of Expodium’s Unmaking the Netherlands, 18 December 2015.

• Supercommunity Live: The Climatic Unconscious at Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 30–31 October 2015.