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Instituting Otherwise

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In 2016–2017, BAK dedicates a series of discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute otherwise.” Within the long-term trajectory Future Vocabularies (2014–2017), the series Instituting Otherwise probes ways of imagining—as well as embodying and inhabiting—alternative institutional practices in myriad arenas: from the state, law, and democracy to infrastructures of education, health, care, intimacy, and art, to discursive formations and imaginary spaces.

Aware that institutions simultaneously support and oppress, the project engages the seeming paradox of a practice that both questions and defends (public) institutions. What are ways of instituting that are informed by, and shaped through, the practice of institutional critique? How can these help set infrastructures that engage institutions but escape “institutionalization”? How to (re)think and (re)claim public spaces, public homes, public schools, public hospitals, public libraries, and public art institutions as interlocutors between care and power?







Exhibitions

30.01.–01.05.2016

Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)

24.09.–20.11.2016

Englishes

02.12.2016–05.02.2017

Learning Laboratories

11.03.–21.05.2017

To Seminar

Public program

Learning place

08.09.2015–28.04.2016

Learning Place: Refugee Crisis, or How to Change Things with Art

Congress

29.–31.01.2016

New World Summit: Stateless Democracy

Symposium

24.06.2017 10.30 hrs

Once We Were Artists

Individuele lesprogramma’s op bandreco
Individuele lesprogramma’s op bandrecorder met hoofdtelefoons, open lesruimte, Granada Community School, Belvedere-Tiburon, Californië, foto: Rondal Partridge. Bron: Robert Propst, High School: The Process and the Place, red. Ruth Weinstock (New York:
Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (
Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice), published by BAK, Utrecht and Valiz, Amsterdam. Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Tom Holert
Englishes, a solo exhibition by Nicoline
Englishes, a solo exhibition by Nicoline van Harskamp
Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Geometry of Fear,
Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Geometry of Fear, 2012. Film still, courtesy of Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Kalfayan Galleries Athene & Thessaloniki

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Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Maria Hlavajova and Jeanne van Heeswijk
Maria Hlavajova and Jeanne van Heeswijk in conversation as part of Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
The BAK 2019/2020 Fellows dreaming of ti
The BAK 2019/2020 Fellows dreaming of time travel with the particle accelerator at the University Museum, Utrecht, 2019, photo: Whitney Stark
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Design by Sean van den Steenhoven*
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise,
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise, organized in the context of the project Trainings for the Not-Yet, 7 December 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, photo: Tom Janssen
Carmen Papalia, collaborative performanc
Carmen Papalia, collaborative performance
Performance The Thread and the Gap
Performance The Thread and the Gap
Jonas Staal and We Are Here, New World A
Jonas Staal and We Are Here, New World Academy #2: Collective Struggle of Refugees: Lost. In Between. Together, public forum, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 1 December 2013, photo: Ernie Buts
Maria Hlavajova presenting during Propos
Maria Hlavajova presenting during Propositions #3: Art as Commitment on 10 February 2018 at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, photo: Tom Janssen