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3 December 2021, from 13 hrs:
Opening No Linear Fucking Time, an exhibition with gatherings, an online publication, and a symposium.
 
In Memoriam Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021)

Program

Exhibition, Gatherings, Publication, Symposium

03 December 2021–30 April 2022

No Linear Fucking Time

Opening: 3 December 2021. No Linear Fucking Time is an exhibition with gatherings, an online publication, and a symposium that unsettle dominant temporalities and model alternate forms of livable time. Convened by BAK’s curator of public practice Rachael Rakes with artist-interlocutors Femke Herregraven, Jumana Manna, and Claudia Martínez Garay, as well as writer Amelia Groom.

    Guided Tour

    04 December 2021–14 January 2022

    Guided Tours: No Linear Fucking Time

    In December 2021 and January 2022, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht organizes a number of guided tours* of the new exhibition No Linear Fucking Time, with/by BAK’s curator of public practice Rachael Rakes and several participating artists. Dates: 4 December 2021, 11 December 2021, and 14 January 2022.

    Exhibition

    27 October 2021–16 January 2022

    Exhibition Black Manifesto: On the Road to Black Emancipation

    Exhibition Black Manifesto: On the Road to Black Emancipation, on view at OSCAM – Open Space Contemporary Art Museum, brings together artists, writers, and other cultural workers who engage with Black Manifesto—a living document with advice and demands from and for the Netherlands’s Black communities on tackling racism and inequality.

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      Publications

      Year 2021

      Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice

      By Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, Rachael Rakes, +42

      Year 2020

      Deserting from the Culture Wars

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

      Year 2019

      Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

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

      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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