The new BAK website is a work in progress. Usufructuaries of earth: a project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)
The new BAK website is a work in progress. Usufructuaries of earth: a project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)

Program

Usufructuaries of earth

A project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024)
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
Design: Sean van den Steenhoven
Design: Sean van den Steenhoven
Program

Chapter one, exhibition

The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of shared usership.
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
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Chapter two, reading groups and online publication

The reading groups are held in the lead-up to the convention to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct.
8 April 2024
2 June 2024
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Chapter three, convention

The convention in the context of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day gathering that summons different practices of non-expropriative userships in relation to land, housing, social reproduction, agriculture, and knowledge.
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
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OPEN CALL: Reading groups

Open call for the Usufructuaries of earth reading groups: a federated structure of three reading groups in Rotterdam, Berlin and Amman.
8 April 2024
19 April 2024
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Prospections
7 April 2024
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afriad of Ideolog
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afriad of Ideology? Part 3: Micro Resistencias, film still, 2020
Prospections
19 March 2024
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideolog
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1, film still, 2017
Program
9 September 2023
29 October 2023
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30 September 2023
30 September 2023
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22 October 2023
10 November 2023
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8 March 2024
8 March 2024
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8 April 2024
31 May 2024
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BAK, basis voor actuele kunst is a base for art, theory, and social action. BAK is committed to the notion of art as a public sphere and a political space, and provides a critical platform for aesthetico-political experiments with and through art. BAK brings together artists, thinkers, and other members of the precarious classes to imagine and enact transformative ways of being together otherwise.

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