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Toward being together otherwise

Visit our digital forum Prospections, and join us for the reopening of Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals on 16 & 17 October 2020

Program

Exhibition

30 September–11 October 2020

HKU MA Fine Art Graduation Show: If Not Now

From 30 September–11 October 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht hosts If Not Now, the graduation exhibition of the 2018−2020 MA Fine Art class of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, curated by Katia Krupennikova.

Exhibition and public program

Prospections

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Fellowship

Fellow 2019/2020

David Muñoz Alcántara

Artist, architect, and researcher David Muñoz Alcántara’s inquiry deals with nomadism of thought and aesthetic praxis at the intersection of futurity and actuality. His recent work looks at militant poetics and radical critique through arts grounded in liberation struggles against class, gender, and racial enclosures. In practice, he produces contextually grounded installations often involving collective […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Oleksiy Radynski

Filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski uses documentary film practice to examine the relationship between fact and fiction. His films have received a number of awards at film festivals. They have been screened at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2019, 2018, and 2015; Stroom, Den Haag, The Hague, 2019; e-flux, New York, 2019 and […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Joy Mariama Smith

Performance, installation, and movement artist and educator Joy Mariama Smith’s work focuses on issues related to visibility, projected identities, and self-representation in different contexts, and investigates the interplay between the body and its cultural, social, and physical environment. In their* dance, performances, and installations, they create spaces in which the distinction between spectator and participant […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Reem Shilleh

Researcher, curator, editor, and artist Reem Shilleh’s practice is informed by a long research project on militant and revolutionary image practices in Palestine, its diaspora, and solidarity network. Some of her recent projects are the curated film program The Space Between: The Invocation, MMAG Foundation, Amman, 2019; the research exhibition series Desires into Fossils: Monuments […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Mijke van der Drift

Philosopher and educator Mijke van der Drift works on ethics as a focal point in multi-disciplinary research about social transformation. Van der Drift is a lecturer at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as of fall 2020, and is a tutor at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. They will also be a Research Associate at the […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Urok Shirhan

Working at the intersection of performance, visual arts, and critical theory, artist Urok Shirhan’s work explores the politics of sound, image, and speech in relation to power and affect. Her projects are often entangled with found materials and autobiographic narratives. Her latest body of research considers questions of the voice as well as the tongue […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Katia Krupennikova

Curator and critic Katia Krupennikova is a docent at HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, and a part of the curatorial team at V-A-C Foundation, Moscow. She is the curator of the 11th edition of Survival Kit Festival in Riga, Being Safe Is Scary, 2020.  Through her projects, Krupennikova attempts to transform existing social and […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Mitchell Esajas

Anthropologist, curator, and social entrepreneur Mitchell Esajas is involved in various community projects in education, employment, diversity, and sustainability and is Co-Founder and Chairman of New Urban Collective, a network for students and young professionals from diverse backgrounds with a focus on the Surinamese, Caribbean, and African diaspora. Having studied Business Studies and Anthropology at […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Grant Watson

Curator, artist, and writer Grant Watson’s interview project How We Behave (2012–ongoing) explores queer ascesis as a personal and a collective politics. His work has been shown at Extra City, Antwerp, 2017; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2017; State of Concept, Athens, 2016; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 2015; The Showroom, London, 2015; and If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam, […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Diana McCarty

Independent media producer and feminist media activist Diana McCarty is a founding editor of reboot.fm, the award winning free artists’ radio in Berlin. She is a co-founder of the radio networks radia.fm and 24/3 FM Berlin; of the FACES (faces-I) online community for women; and of the elsehere association. In 2020, she co-curated Latitude on Air—Unsettling […]
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Publications

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 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

Cordially Invited (project guide)

By Maria Hlavajova, Gerardo Mosquera, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, +1

Year 2004

Now What? Artists Write!

By Mark Kremer, Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher

Year 2003

Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts (project guide)

By Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher, Liutauras Psibilskis

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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