What is punishment? Is punishment a logical result of jurisdiction? What are its effects (on perpetrators, victims, and communities)? How might we envision a society in which justice and punishment are not directly linked? In 2020, artist Juliacks will collaborate with TAAK, curator and art historian Suzanne Sanders, and the [...more]
Being incarcerated involves isolation, confinement, and surveillance at the margins of society. Detainees live in separate societies, concealed from the horizon of the rest of the world. With programmes filled with activities, rehabilitation, and education, an attempt is made to socialize prisoners and prepare them for their return to ‘real’ [...more]
Op 21 juni 2018 start de manifestatie ‘Pay Attention Please!’. TAAK is een van de 11 Amsterdamse kunstinstellingen die in de zomer van 2018 de krachten bundelen bij het tonen van de rijkdom van de publieke ruimte van Amsterdam. Please Pay Attention! is de eerste editie van een tweejaarlijkse manifestatie die [...more]
radical conservation (winterklaar) Nils van Beek and Edward Clydesdale Thomson Sunday 26 November 2017 15.30-17.00 hrs Huize Frankendael, Middenweg 72, Amsterdam On Sunday, November 26, you are invited to join us for some digging, cutting, pruning, planting, saving and destroying. It’s a chance to remake an [...more]
Performative demonstration from the former prison Bijlmerbajes to Dam Square. Join and help refugees be heard! Take a look at the teaser video made by Yulia Ratman Photo’s of the march can be viewed on Flickr. Saturday, October 28, 2017 Start: 1 p.m, end around 4. p.m Starting [...more]
Art manifestation in the Amsterdam Forest, June 4 through July 16, 2017 Cure Park is a contemporary health resort that will pitch its tents this summer from June 4 to July 16 among the trees of the Amsterdam Forest. Centered around the Bostheater, Cure Park brings together over 30 artists, [...more]
Launch of Heterotropics September 24, 2016 12pm – 7pm A multifold dramaturgy of exhibitions, performances and a boat trip to imaginary islands Artists: Alex 2000 & Pauline Curnier Jardin, David Bernstein & Jokūbas Čižikas and Jacopo Miliani Where: Indische Buurt, Amsterdam Oost Curated by Sara Giannini [...more]
Palace Ruin functions as a stage for thematic concerts and an architectural lecture series. Palace Ruin is a fragment of Amsterdam’s own ‘Crystal Palace’, the Paleis voor Volksvlijt, which is being rebuilt in part by artist James Beckett. By echoing the ambitious cultural programme of exhibits and concerts [...more]
For the third consecutive time, TAAK organises Summer School Marfa. Students from various art academies will dive in the unique artistic climate of Marfa, Texas. This year Summer School takes place twice, in March and in June-July. The 2nd Summer School will take place from 20 June to 4 July 4 [...more]
A project by Silvan Laan at the Hortus Botanicus VU The Hortus Botanicus VU, located at the Amsterdam business district the Zuidas, will be host to a knowledge- and expertise center where artists, experts and audiences meet to learn about plants, biodiversity and ecosystems. The way we relate to nature [...more]
For the third consecutive time, TAAK organises Summer School Marfa. Students from various art academies will dive in the unique artistic climate of Marfa, Texas. This year Summer School takes place twice, in March and in June-July. Conceptual artist Donald Judd made Marfa a special place in the seventies. He [...more]
If we want to master our own cure we have to find new ways to deal with pain. We do everything to avoid pain. This seems smart, feeling pain most of the time not experienced positively but why do we then repeat hurting ourself and others? And why is avoiding pain not always [...more]
A new two-year Temporary Master programme 2014 – 2016 at the Sandberg Institute The Cure Master programme examines the function and definition of health and disease in our society. A group of autonomous researchers will create individual and group projects towards realising Cure Park, a place to meet, [...more]
Presentations and talks at Summer School Marfa Independence Day A Texmex night at TAAK From May 20 to June 10, 16 students from the Dutch Art Institute, the Sandberg Instituut/Gerrit Rietveld Academie and California College of Arts (CCA) participated in Summer School Marfa, a three week fieldtrip and student fieldwork [...more]
PILVI TAKALA & MAJA BEKAN AND ANNETTE KRAUS/ SCHOOL OF TEMPORALITIES TAAK and De Punt are hosting the second Talk at TAAK related to Call of the Mall in Utrecht’s Hoog Catharijne with: Pilvi Takala, Maja Bekan and Annette Krauss/ School of temporalities Pilvi Takala will talk about [...more]
TAAK and De Punt are hosting two evenings in June with artists, special guests, drinks and food. Both events are related to the Call of the Mall manifestation taking place in Utrecht’s Hoog Catharijne this summer. The fist TALK AT TAAK is featuring: MATT DARBYSHIRE & WILLEM GROSHEIDE On intellectual property Wednesday [...more]
Text of the performance by Melanie Bonajo at MEET TAAK (24 January 2013): How can people create together ? Emancipation of today has its own questions which answers must advance on the lines of the inner need as well as the outer lines. The concentration itself [...more]