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Program

Education Program

Exhibition

10 September–10 December 2022

The Hauntologists

The Hauntologists a project that emerged through experimentation and collective research within the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, taking place at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, Gudskul in Jakarta, and Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme, IKSV in Istanbul.  

    Symposium

    4 July 2022-Ongoing

    Symposium: No Linear Fucking Time (videos)

    Videos of some of the panels making up the closing symposium of No Linear Fucking Time are now available to watch online. The first two available panels are Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice and Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration and Refuge.

      Prospections

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      Fellowship

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Merve Bedir

      Merve Bedir is an architect and researcher. She co-founded Mutfak مطبخ Workshop focusing on the kitchen as a cultural space in Gaziantep, Turkey; Aformal Academy, an experimental school program in Pearl River Delta region, China; and Center for Spatial Justice in Istanbul, Turkey. Merve has a PhD from Delft University of Technology, and her ongoing […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      İlyas Odman

      İlyas Odman is a choreographer and performance artist whose interests lie in creating layers through what is happening to a specific body on a specific space, and the relationships between the layers and narrations created by the body and space. He is also a storyteller and an activist who prefers collaborative work and possibilities, as […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Gesyada Siregar

      Gesyada Siregar is a curator, writer, and art organizer. She is subject coordinator for articulation and curation at GUDSKUL: Contemporary Art Collectives and Ecosystem Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia. She is interested in supporting young artists, the rereading of Indonesia art writings from the period of the 1940 to the 1990s, and how she can intertwine them. She likes […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Zeyno Pekünlü

      Zeyno Pekünlü is an artist. She is currently running the Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme at Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, IKSV, Istanbul. She is co-founder of KIRIK, an initiative for people and topics in the cracks. She is part of the editorial board of e-journal Red Thread and member of IRI (Institute of Radical Imagination). Scanning a range […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Gayatri Kodikal

      Gayatri Kodikal is an artist, writer, educator, and game maker known as gamedevi. She is currently the speculative fiction coach at MAMA, Rotterdam, and is an invited guest artist at the Posthuman & New Materialism Summer School at Utrecht University, Utrecht. She has previously worked as a freelance educator for TU Delft, Delft; Srishti Manipal […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Cristina Cochior

      Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer. She is a member of the everyday technology collective Varia (2017–ongoing), as well as a tutor in the Hacking Department of the Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam (2020–ongoing) and in the Experimental Publishing Department of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2021–ongoing). Recent projects she’s been part of include […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Dika+Lija

      Dika+Lija (Anathapindika Dai and Liza Markus) are art workers. After naive school dreams and the sobering truth of contemporary art, they found themselves sharing similar pains within their full-time jobs: Lija, currently a gallery girl who hates the art market, and Dika, once a museum staff who hated the academia. Being fugitives of their own […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Yen Noh

      Yen Noh is a visual and performance artist. Her practice engages with modes of linguistic and paralinguistic performativity as a way to challenge the cyclical violence of racialised and gendered identity and its (re)presentation. Throughout, Noh is concerned with possibilities of language that embody the unspeakable beyond linguistic norms and without reclaiming subjectivity, and, in […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Kerem Ozan Bayraktar

      Kerem Ozan Bayraktar is an artist and researcher. His work inspects the domains of real and fictional entities: their dynamics of individuation and patterns of complexity by means of research, installation, digital media, text and speech. These entities range from spontaneous invasive plants to exoplanets, from machines to ghostly bodies. A faculty member at Marmara […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Marina Papazyan

      Marina Papazyan is an artist and writer. They thread together semi-fictions about themself by way of writing, voicing and recording. Their works rely on the body as a source of grammar where it is mainly through pores, cavities and intestines that the world is sensed and told. Their texts reflect a sense of self that […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Ilgın Hancıoğlu

      Ilgın Hancıoğlu is an artist and researcher, currently assisting artist İnci Eviner in various projects alongside making independent short animations. Her interests encompass the storytelling potential of public spaces and authorities’ manifestations in them, as well as speculative biology and experimental animation. During the Fellowship for Situated Practice, she aims to explore places and routes of uneasiness throughout the city, in conversation […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Anitha Silvia

      Anitha Silvia is a cultural activist. She works as research assistant for Marco Kusumawijaya’s book “Cities in Indonesia: Introduction for Common People”, is a member of Indonesia Netaudio Forum and Kwangsan Kunstkring, and Silampukau’s band manager. She is interested in walking to learn about urbanism. Her latest walk is mapping traditional coffee shops, traditional markets, […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Philippa Driest

      Philippa Driest is an artist. In 2018-2019 she was part of the first year of WHW Akademija, Zagreb, and recently finished her MA at the Dutch Art Institute, 2021. She is the initiator of KIOSK Rotterdam, and former janitor of Pension Almonde. For the past year and a halve, her work involved painting interiors, fixing […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Rifandi Nugroho

      Rifandi Septiawan Nugroho is a researcher and occasional curator working along the intersection between architecture, art and everyday life. Currently, he is involved as facilitator for spatial practice subject at Gudskul and working as editor for arsitekturindonesia.org . Since 2016, he has made several exhibitions and space activations related to his interest with collective memories, […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Alexandra Karyn

      Alexandra Karyn is an artist, art teacher, and activist. She currently teaches information and interpretation in art and design as well as conceptual writing, and light approach classes at Erudio Indonesia, Jakarta. Karyn is one of the initiators of the environmental activism coalition Jeda Untuk Iklim (Global Climate Strike) and is also actively involved in […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Angga Wijaya

      Angga Wijaya is a curator and educator, who works collectively with Serrum, art and pedagogy study group. At Gudskul, Angga teaches the subject Collective Arts Review, mapping the development of collective art practices. He also teaches History of Art at Erudio Indonesia, a democratic and project-based art high school. Angga studied curatorial practices at several […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Özge Açıkkol

      Özge Açıkkol is an artist and a member of Oda Projesi collective. Working at the intersection of art, socio-spatial practices, literature, and social pedagogy, she is a collector of situational usages of İstanbul’s public spaces, using photographic and narrative documentation. Since 2013, with Oda Projesi she questions the transformation capacity of the artist-mother subject through […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Megan Hoetger / Zone Collective

      Zone Collective is a collaborative duo consisting of Megan Hoetger and Kirila Cvetkovska. Hoetger is a performance and media historian, and currently curator with Amsterdam-based If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. Cvetkovska is an independent cultural practitioner alternating between different roles in the arts, and looking for new […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Jara Rocha

      Jara Rocha are an interdependent researcher-artist. They are currently involved in several disobedient action research projects, such as Volumetric Regimes (with Femke Snelting), The Underground Division (with Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting), and Vibes & Leaks (with Kym Ward and Xavier Gorgol). They are also part of the curatorial team of DONE programs at Foto […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Gatari Kusuma

      Gatari Surya Kusuma, called Gatari, is a writer, curator based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. After graduating from the Department of Photography at the Indonesian Institute of the Art in 2016 (BA), she has been developing and sharpening her collectivity practices with her two collectives, doing action research and deepened critical pedagogy with KUNCI Study Forum & […]

      Fellow 2021/2022

      Karl Moubarak

      Karl Moubarak is a designer, researcher, and web developer whose practice is rooted in the digital sphere and focuses on the development of on- and offline sites for connectivity and exchange. He is a member of Amsterdam-based workshop cooperative Hackers & Designers (2019–ongoing), Eindhoven-based interstitial collective body Office of Queer Affairs (2017–ongoing), and Beirut-based historical […]
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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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