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Program

Reading Group

23 June–24 July 2022

Open Call: In Between Seances

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, launches an open call for participation in the weekly study group In Between Seances. This collective study is based on the groundbreaking work Dictee (1982) by artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982) and is developed by artist and BAK 2021/2022 Fellow Yen Noh.

    Award ceremony

    1 July 2022

    Keep an Eye Photography Stipends

    The award ceremony of the Keep an Eye photography stipends takes place on July 1, 2022, during the graduation festival Exposure. The stipends are awarded as a means to support and give financial incentive to graduates who work with the medium of photography immediately after graduating. This way, they contribute to the profiling as a creator or beginning artist, and makes it possible for the graduates to, with coaching, settle in a suitable field of practice.  

      Exhibition

      29 June–03 July 2022

      UPSCALING/DOWNSIZING

      UPSCALING/DOWNSIZING, the graduation exhibition of students on the Photography course at the University of the Arts, Utrecht, opens at BAK on 29 June 2022. The themes that broadly bind this group of young creators together are the digitalization of society and the role of technology in shaping identities, opinions, and memories.

        Prospections

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        Fellowship

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        Rifandi Septiawan 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

        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

        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

        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

        Gatari Surya 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 […]

        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

        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

        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 […]
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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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