Claudius Krucker | 16. Juni 2023

Art Basel Week 2023 Daily Bucket List – Saturday

Finally Saturday! This may be the motto of many folks here at Art Basel, but it’s also the name of a party happening on the Theaterplatz. From 7 to 11 pm, a series of talks, performances and concerts on different locations are scheduled, then various DJ sets in the Foyer of the Theater Basel take over until 4am. Open to all, free of charge.

Finally Saturday is intervowen with a good old fellow on Art Basel Saturdays: The Parcours Night, with extended opening hours and a program of performances from 6 to 11pm at some of the Parcours locations.

But there’s more going on, here are our recommendations:

11
Botanical Garden of Basel University | Spalengraben 8 | Basel
Ghost Tour with Chanelle Adams
hosted by Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Bring your own phone and headphones. Register at [email protected] (max 20 participants).

12-18
Kaserne Basel
I Never Read Art Book Fair – final day!

13-14
Art Basel Conversations | Hall 1.0
Co-Creating with AI: The Artist’s View. Panel with:
– Suzanne Treister, artist, London
– Marguerite Humeau, artist, London
– Roger Wattenhofer, Professor, ETH Zurich
Moderator: Jeni Fulton, Head of Editorial, Art Basel
Art Basel Conversations are free and open to the public.

14-15
KBH.G | Basel
Public guided tour (DE and EN) through the exhibition Evaporating Suns – Contemporary Myths from the Arabian Gulf

14-18
City SALTS | Birsfelden
Special Event: Das elektrische Zitherspiel by Deirdre O’Leary and Samuel Tschudin will be playing all afternoon (2–6 pm), and at 5:30 pm a performance by Noa and Lara Castro will be presented

14:30
Der Allplatz – Messeplatz Project | Messeplatz
Public Concert by Alvin Curran

15-16
Art Basel Conversations | Hall 1.0
What Does Blockchain Mean for Ownership and Copyright? A panel with:
– Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, CEO, Arcual, London
– Amelie Ebbinghaus, Director, The Art Loss Register, London
– Sarah Friend, artist and software developer, Berlin
– Primavera De Filippi, artist and Research Director at CNRS / Harvard
Moderator: Brian Droitcour, Editor in Chief, Outland, New York
Art Basel Conversations are free and open to the public.

18-23
Basel City Center
Art Basel Parcours Parcours Night

18:30
Der Allplatz – Messeplatz Project | Messeplatz
Public Concert by Not Waving

19-04
Theaterplatz and Foyer Theater Basel
Finally Saturday

21-22:30
Stadtkino Basel | Klostergasse 5 | Basel
Art Basel Film: An evening on Magical Realisms and Sci-Fi­: Worldlings
Worldlings brings together a series of artists’ films that celebrate existence through alliances, stories, and myths with other creatures and life forms:
– Milena Mihajlović, crying choir, 2023
– Vital Z’Brun, Le Ballet de ma solitude, 2018-20, 03:37 min.
– Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, 2022, 25:00 min.
– Lea Porsager, Mighty Rushed Experiment, 2021, 09:58 min.
– Goutam Ghosh and Jason Havneraas, Paara, 2018, 34:51 min.
The screening is anticipated by a live Q&A in the cinema with Ayoung Kim, Milena Mihajlović, Vital Z’Brun and Filipa Ramos.

22:30-24
Stadtkino Basel | Klostergasse 5 | Basel
Art Basel Film: An evening on Magical Realisms and Sci-Fi­ part 2:
Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, REMOTE, 2022, 92min
The screening is anticipated by a live Zoom Q&A with Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi and Filipa Ramos.