Performance
15 September 2018
Call for participation: We invite 150 people living or working in Utrecht to create a unique self-portrait of the city through their individual stories, and to walk down a runway together in the the heart of the city at the opening of het Uitfeest 2018.
Exhibition
12 May–22 July 2018
This exhibition features works by artists Doug Ashford, Sven Augustijnen, Tala Madani, Liz Magic Laser, Eva and Franco Mattes, Otobong Nkanga, and Sarah Vanhee, as well as a library space conceived by 2017/2018 BAK Fellow Sepake Angiama.
Exhibition
04 September–29 November 2015
Considering nature as a rights-bearing subject, Forest Law (2014)—a collaborative video-installation by artist-researcher Ursula Biemann and architect Paulo Tavares—brings us to Ecuador where, not without challenges of its own, this radically altered relationship to the earth and the natural world has become possible.
13 February–29 December 2014
The project Future Vocabularies is initiated in 2014 with an opening vocabulary entry on survival. It is envisioned as a foundational sequence, evolving over the course of the full year and made up of multiple conceptual narratives from which to draw the subsequent themes and methods for both thinking and acting.
08 September 2015–24 June 2017
In 2016–2017, BAK dedicates a series of discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute otherwise.”
Performance
28 May 2016, 19.30
Co-presentation with SPRING Festival 2016 of a performance by Nástio Mosquito.
BAK Summer School 2018
16-20 July 2018
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that brings together those involved in arts, academia, and activisms to collectively think through, learn about, and imagine critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp and influence our dramatically changing times.
Talks and conversations
10 February 2018
Propositions #3: Art as Commitment is the third convening platform in BAK’s long-term research series Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–2020), prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of historical and contemporary fascisms in our present.
Educational platform
15-24 November 2013
Educational platform realized with the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines.
Performative Conference
30 June, 16.00–1 July, 00.00 2018
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary marks the culmination of a vibrant and inspiring 2017/2018 pilot year of the BAK Fellowship Program. Through conversations, readings, and performances, the BAK Fellows share insights into their respective artistic research itineraries, as well as their common “collective dictionary” project.
