The School of Walking at Urbanize! 2024, Vienna, sheds light on the investments of citizens, democratic questions and questions of the law against the background of the climate crisis. The walks all address the role of agency, inclusion and participatory democracy in combating climate crisis, reviving public space as an agora – a place of sociopolitical and cultural deliberation. Bik Van der Pol have invited architects, activists, researchers, writers, residents, to lead a walk to a site that speaks back to this while moving, taking into account promises imbedded in the language used in the communication of these questions.

Hollandse Meesters is a great portrait on the work of Bik van der Pol. Directed by filmmaker Ivan Barbosa who made a rollercoaster road movie of interlocking stories and sites, from the rough port area of the Maasvlakte via the ferry at Spijkenisse to a high-rise roof in the center of Utrecht, to a basketball court in Kanaleneiland, to an airport at the tip of North Holland, to the sand dunes near Soest.

School of Walking, and At the end of this long journey - Bik Van der Pol in dialogue with Bert Flint, November 2021, Marrakesh, on show at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. See also here

The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde Sharjah Art Foundation, from 24 February–16 June 2024. With School of Walking by Bik Van der Pol, featuring artists Fatima Mazmouz, Hassan Darsi, Mohamed Fariji, and journalist and cultural operator Maria Daïf, and the video At the end of this long journey, Bik Van der Pol in dialogue with Bert Flint (November 2021, Marrakesh)
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School of Casablanca is a collaborative initiative of ifa Gallery Berlin, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and ThinkArt (Casablanca) with support from Sharjah Art Foundation, Goethe-Institut Morocco, and Zamân Books & Curating. The project draws on the legacy of the Casablanca Art School and its innovative pedagogical methods, modernist aesthetics, and exhibition strategies during the 1960s and highlights a pivotal moment in Moroccan art history following the country’s 1956 independence.
Opening 15/2, 19h. Artists talk 16/2 16 h

Shimmer, Sequins, cycle 4, Bik Van der Pol, with drawing workshop and conversation with Bik Van der Pol, Mariana Françozo and Merijn de Waal, and insert in MetropolisM January/February 2024

This is what we did during the covid years: a lot of in-depth reading as site-specific research, into the pile of circa 50 Mosaic Magazines, from the first Issue (October 1967) to now. Mosaic issue 54.2 is a special archival issue developed as the first part of a collaborative project between us, the magazine and Shep Steiner. Shifting through fifty odd years of old issues and forty times as many published essays, we collectively selected twelve to republish.
The second part of the project involves a series of lectures that will be published in subsequent issues (55.1, expected July 2023, and 55.2, expected August 2023).
introduction about our work and collaboration with Mosaic, by Shepherd Steiner and Karalyn Dokurno.

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience.

Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors—from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang, Weegee to Warhol—to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.

Our text Speechless: Some Notes About Birds, in this beautiful 436 pages thick book. 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, 2021

Public Space? Lost and Found, a collection of essays, projects, and interviews on the shape and status of public space-making in art and architecture today. MIT Press.
WERE IT AS IF, many-voiced case study that enlists the power of archival fragments of this institution, as points of provocation to engage with methodologies of the contemporary. Contributions by Defne Ayas, Bik Van der Pol, Manuel Borja-Villel, Marianna Hovhannisyan, Brian Kuan Wood, Doreen Mende, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Samuel Saelemakers, Terry Smith, Ana Teixeira Pinto. Designed by Bardhi Haliti.
School of Missing Studies, Contributions by Liz Allan, Bik Van der Pol, Charles Esche, E. C. Feiss, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Sarah Pierce, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, Nato Thompson. Design by Anja Groten. Sandberg Series n°1. Sternberg Press
In the vacuum of the Gwangju Uprising: endless struggles. A conversation between Binna Choi and Liesbeth Bik in newspaper Nossa Voz (Our Voice), Casa do Povo (Sao Paulo). download pdf here