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Visit Prospections—BAK’s evolving digital forum for anticipatory and propositional discourse, research, and intervention, driven by the urgencies that shape the world at present.

Please note that BAK’s physical site is closed, in accordance with the Dutch government’s Covid-19 lockdown measures.

Program

Education Program

15 March–01 April 2021

Course: Art as Politics [rerun]

Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers yet another rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 March & 1 April 2021. This digital extension of BAK Public Studies, taught by Maria Hlavajova, is prompted by the urgency to continue collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present.
Deadline applications: 3 March. Deadline feewaivers: 23 February.

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Fellowship

Fellow 2020

Mitchy Mallorca Saturay

Mitchy Mallorca Saturay is a theater artist, activist, cultural worker/organizer, and political refugee from the Philippines. As a teenager at the height of the Marcos dictatorship in the 1970s, she joined a progressive theater company that opened her eyes to the plight of the poor and oppressed. She quickly recognized that the elements of theater […]

Fellow 2020

Irit Rogoff

Irit Rogoff is a writer, teacher, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theory, and emergent political manifestations. She is a professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, London, where she heads the PhD in the Curatorial/Knowledge program and the MA in the Global Arts program. Her practice deals […]

Fellow 2020

Aylin Kuryel

Aylin Kuryel is an academic working at the Literary and Cultural Analysis department of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. She completed her undergraduate education at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, and her MA and PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam. Her fields of research include nationalism, image politics, aesthetics/resistance, and politics of emotions. She […]

Fellow 2020

Selçuk Balamir

Selçuk Balamir is a postcapitalist designer, commoning researcher, and climate justice organizer working at the intersections of creative production, radical politics, and ecological transition. He specializes in strategic communications, community building, and making social transformation irresistible. Balamir has helped develop the framework for “Climate Games,” a transmedia action-adventure event enabling peer-to-peer disobedience, Amsterdam and Paris, […]

Fellow 2020

Grace Lostia

Grace Lostia is an activist involved in community building through food and music. Lostia has a background in political and inter-cultural anthropology; researches fermentation as a culinary and social phenomenon; and is involved in intercontinental squatting and do-it-yourself (DIY) communities. Currently working as a freelance vegan caterer at La Cucina Nomade and a kitchen experimentalist, […]

Fellow 2020

Louis Moreno

Louis Moreno is Lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures and the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London, London. He is also the joint program leader of the BA in History of Art at Goldsmiths. Moreno’s research explores the spatial, historical, and cultural systems of financial capitalism, with a particular focus on architecture, urbanism, […]

Fellow 2020

Stefano Harney

Stefano Harney is author with Fred Moten of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and All Incomplete (2020), both published by Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. He is currently a Hayden Fellow at Yale School of Art, New Haven, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. […]

Fellow 2020

Triwish Hanoeman

Utrecht-born rapper/producer with Surinamese-Hindustani roots, Triwish Hanoeman, started out in 2003 as rapper 3wish and has since become an entrepreneur in the music and cultural scene. His projects range from performing arts workshops and talent development, to project management organizing, programming, and participation. A small selection of his 2019 projects include De Jam 030, de […]

Fellow 2020

Nora Sternfeld

Nora Sternfeld is an educator and curator. Since October 2020, she is a professor of art education at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg. From 2018–2020, she was documenta Professor at  Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, and from 2012–2018 Professor of Curating and Mediating Art at Aalto University, Espoo. Sternfeld is Co-Director of the /ecm master’s […]

Fellow 2020

Mutual Support Platform

The Mutual Support Platform (MSP) is a space for conversations and actions by/between/for students, alumni, and teachers of the MAFA HKU, Utrecht. It emerged as a collective effort in response to the crisis of COVID-19, which we experienced with differing levels of privilege. The platform continues to exist as an internal (and at times external) […]

Fellow 2020

Adrian Heathfield

Adrian Heathfield writes on, curates, and creates performance. He is the author of Out of Now (2008), a monograph on the artist Tehching Hsieh; editor of Ally and Live: Art and Performance (2017); co-editor of Perform, Repeat, Record (2012); and his essays have been translated into ten languages. He conducted the creative research project Curating the Ephemeral (2014–2016) on immaterial art and museal practices; […]

Fellow 2020

Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona

Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona is a writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist. He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, at Goldsmiths University of London, London. He has a multidisciplinary background in economics and anthropology and his work focuses on the relationship between art and political economy. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Brazil, Italy, Norway, and […]

Fellow 2020

Colored Qollective

Colored Qollective is an organization that was founded in 2018 and focuses on the position and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people of color in society. Everything Colored Qollective does is from a perspective of positionality and intersectionality, which means taking into account how different identities cross each other […]

Fellow 2020

Shay Raviv

Shay Raviv is a social designer, design researcher, and project initiator. Raviv works on different projects in which culture, design, and creativity are seen as a means to bridge societal gaps. As a design researcher, she brings stories from different perspectives to the center of a creation process and helps different organizations to better understand […]

Fellow 2020

Yasmin Ahmed

Organizer and facilitator Yasmin Ahmed is active in various movements for social transformation in local and international contexts. Her political work is based in anti-imperialist solidarity and collective praxis, particularly with the liberation struggles in Palestine and the Philippines. This is realized through on-the-ground mobilization; developing and delivering education; and facilitating sites for movement building. […]
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Publications

Year 2019

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

By Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Rosi Braidotti, +13

Year 2020

Deserting from the Culture Wars

By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Bini Adamczak, +11

Year 2017

Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice)

By Maria Hlavajova, Tom Holert, Hidde van Greuningen, +13

Year 2016

FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989

By Nancy Adajania, Edit András, Athena Athanasiou, +76

Year 2015

Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

By Nancy Adajania, Ariella Azoulay, Amelia Barikin, +14

Year 2010

The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook)

By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Marlies van Hak, +1

Year 2004

Now What? Artists Write!

By Mark Kremer, Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher

Year 2003

Germaine Kruip, A Play To Stop to Add A Moment

By Maria Hlavajova, Germaine Kruip

Year 2002

Becoming Oneself

By Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher, Nicolas Bourriaud, +7

Year 2001

Common Ground

By Maria Hlavajova, Krijn de Koning, André van Bergen, +5

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