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Update COVID-19: BAK temporarily closed, public programs cancelled/postponed, more info

Program

Presentation

18 September 2019–04 September 2020

Presentation: The People Are the City

From 18 September 2019–4 September 2020 BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht presents The People Are the City at the Utrecht City Office, a presentation that reflects on the extraordinary coming together of the people of Utrecht in the collective performance What Is the City but the People? on Jaarbeursplein on 15 September 2018. This presentation is part of exhibition Op Kunstsafari door Utrecht.

Exhibition and public program

28 February–17 May 2020

Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals

[Update COVID-19: exhibition space temporarily closed until further notice. You can now view the opening conversation between artist Tony Cokes and Irit Rogoff on the BAK YouTube channel.]
From 28 February–17 May 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht proudly presents Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals. An exhibition and public program with and around the work of artist Tony Cokes, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza.

Fellowship

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

Mijke van der Drift

Writer, educator, and performer Mijke van der Drift uses ethics as a focal point in multi-disciplinary research about social transformation. Van der Drift teaches at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, has worked internationally on radical transfeminism, for instance at Pembe Hayat Kuirfest, Ankara, 2018; Schwules Museum, […]

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

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

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; a co-founder of the radio networks Radia Network (radia.fm) and 24/3 FM Radio Network Berlin; and of the FACES (faces-I) online community for women, among other initiatives. She co-initiated the exhibition Nervous […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Katia Krupennikova

Curator and critic Katia Krupennikova is a member of the Bergen Assembly, a docent at HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, and a part of the curatorial team at V-A-C Foundation, Moscow. Through her projects, Krupennikova attempts to transform existing social and political constructs into critical artistic models within which existing relations can be mimicked, […]

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 and he has presented at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2019, 2018, and 2015; Stroom, Den Haag, The Hague, 2019; e-flux, […]

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

Urok Shirhan

Visual artist Urok Shirhan’s work explores the politics of image, sound, and speech in relation to (national) identity. Working mainly with video, performance, and writing, 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 in relation to language, […]

Fellow 2019/2020

Grant Watson

Research curator and writer Grant Watson’s research and curatorial project How We Behave (2012–ongoing) explores queer-ascesis, as well as left- and ecopolitics through filmed interviews. 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 […]
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Publications

Year 2019

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

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

Year 2010

The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook)

By Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Marlies van Hak, +1

Year 2004

Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this? 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe

By Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Catherine David, +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 2002

The Kit (Emmanuelle’s Annual Manual)

By Maria Pask

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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