5 February 2026
Camp Notes
5 – 14 February
a Public Sharing of Collective Learnings
exhibition of Learning Objects and public program
of conversations and workshops with Basecampers
Opening Hours
Thursday 5 February to Saturday 7 February, 15:00 – 21:00
Wednesday 11 February – Saturday 14 February
CAMP NOTES shares some key learnings developed over the course of 2025, when BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries began the work of building and rebuilding cultural infrastructures. Focused on access-making and agency building, this first year of ‘camping’ involved bringing together collectives, individuals and organisations who were a part of these processes.
Using the idea of learning objects – material and conceptual practices that function to gather and engage us in learning - we now share various outcomes-in-progress, including sculptures, videos, installation, process notes and discussions. These learning objects invite you to think along with us around access and agency, as we draw the past year’s work forward into our 2026 focus, affordances and collectivity.
Meet the Basecampers and join the conversation to reflect together on how to continue laying and nourishing the ground for artistic, cultural, materially-grounded and emancipatory democratic practices.
On view:
Learning Objects
What Are Your Flowers?
Assembling in Resistance
Sculpture and Collective Notes
by Iliada Charalambous
What Are Your Flowers? is a sculptural artwork that functions as a space for assembly, inspired by Amilcar Cabral’s idea of ‘militant education’. The sculpture seats currently active political communities as part of Iliada’s programme of reading groups, Assembling in Resistance, in which they learn from a variety of revolutionary movements across time and territory. It is adorned with embroidered flowers and plants that connect to different leftist revolutionary movements and local endangered, species to (symbolically) bring more-than-human companions into this act of collective study.
Across 2025, Assembling in Resistance collaborated with the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation, the Anti-Imperialist Network, Reading Counterpower Amsterdam, the Zapatismo Study Group, the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals, the Academy of Democratic Modernity, the Jineoloji Center and the Garage School of Medicine.
TRACTION
Video installation
by Sandra Lange
TRACTION is an offering, a creative gathering and a soft experiment with materials and embodied thinking about trauma. Sandra Lange engaged in conversations and the creating of forms that represent what trauma would look like inside our bodies, together with her brother, invited guests and interlocutors. This video is part of a wider learning object of recordings and sculptural forms that represent and articulate embodied trauma.
Untitled [-S-c-e-n-t-s- Sense]
Installation
by Joy Mariama Smith
Untitled [-S-c-e-n-t-s- Sense] is a performative intervention that uses access intimacy and seemingly supportive technologies. It considers the implications of Anosmia (‘smell blindness’) in relation to colonial histories, diasporic identities, and the hierarchy of senses. The installation combines assistive technologies, audio, video and selected smells and invites the viewer to consider – through scent - borders, boundaries, access, power, policing and stigmatisation, as well as collectivity, liberation, intimacy, care, migration and resistance.
About Open Kitchens
mycorrhizal hospitalities and upcycling learnings
by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN (b.a.k.) is a community kitchen network for sharing and activities in the struggle against fascism, oppression, and exploitation. It aims to gather people to prepare food and take part in shared meals while exchanging experiences, political views and critical thought. “Basic” because it is meant to serve as a base for a commons, a space to gather political support, and to build solidarity and alliances. “Activist” because it can be used as a tool to help activists (individuals and groups) to nurture radical, collective actions. It is a call to action on matters that concern and affect many people. “Kitchen” couples the act of food preparation and the shared meal with art, politics, and their interactions.
Value Tree
Spatial design entrance
by Merve Bedir
The building’s entrance is conceived as a space where the introduction and the welcome, and the values of Basecamp are installed. Through year-long, weekly gatherings and assemblies, facilitated by Srishagon Abraham and Merve Bedir, the individual and collective participants of the Basecamp brought together verbal and spatial imaginaries of what kind of artistic and cultural spaces and infrastructures they need today, and how they want to use and operate in the building. These gatherings made space for sustaining the connections and familiarities of the participants, as well as sketching the values, vision, and actions of Basecamp. This way the value tree embodies an archive of ideas, opinions, thoughts, and knowledges of the participants.
The building’s entrance continues to hold space for the dissemination of activities with/by enduring and persistent accomplices, companions, peers.
Public Program
Friday 6 February
15:00 – 17:30
Laboratory of Pain
workshop with Sandra Lange
19:00 – 20:30
Access Making, Sensing Differently
conversation with Colored Qollective, Ren Britton and Joy Mariama Smith, hosted by Alejandro Navarrete Cortés
There are many barriers to entry and involvement in the cultural sector, and diverse embodied and historical experiences of what working is and feels like, and what counts as work. In this conversation, collectives and artists working with questions of access and sense-making share some of their thinking and practices. Together, we will reflect on how sensing differently supports new imaginaries of democratic infrastructures.
Saturday 7 February
15:00 – 17:30
TRACTION
working towards belonging
workshop with Sandra Lange
19:00 – 20:30
Governing Collectively: Building Infrastructures Anew
conversation with Iliada Charalambous, Merve Bedir and Remove the Dot, hosted by Sophie Mak-Schram and Jeanne van Heeswijk
This conversation shares the processes and learnings of building infrastructures inside the Basecamp. We will reflect on how the Basecamp uses sociocratic governing models and learning objects to develop structures for collective learning, space usage and responsive and inclusive processes of operating. This will include detail about Assembling in Resistance (Iliada Charalambous), the entrance and welcome at the Basecamp, and Basecamp Theories.
Wednesday 11 February
15:00 – 17:00
Opening our eyes
a hands-on workshop on radical collaboration and seeing otherwise
by Laura Raicovich
19:00 – 20:30
Community Holding, Celebrating Cultures
creative contributions from Raidan Baqi, Triwish Hanoeman and Companion Collectives, hosted by Srishagon Abraham
Thursday 12 February
19:00 – 20:30
Radical Hospitality, Fermenting Anti-Fascism
conversation with Teresa Borasino and the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN, hosted by Wan Ing Que
What are the interconnections between hospitality and radical politics? Thinking with the practices of active cooking, fermenting, eating and sharing of Teresa Borasino and the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN.
Graphic design by Insan Larasati
[id: various interpretations of the word “note” appear in purple on a green background. For example, a notebook, pieces of paper, a fermentation jar and a microphone. The name of the exhibition appears in flurry and pixelated font. the text is also green and purple]
