The Return of Religion and Other Myths is een grootschalig en veelzijdig project, bestaande uit de tentoonstelling The Art of Iconoclasm, een lezingenprogramma in het voorjaar van 2009 getiteld On Post-Secularism en de publicatie van een BAK Critical Reader over het onderwerp in 2009. Het project onderzoekt de populaire aanname van een terugkeer van religie in de publieke sfeer, hedendaagse politiek en Westerse media als een vormende ‘mythe’.

Tentoonstelling

tentoonstelling
30.11.2008–01.03.2009
The Art of Iconoclasm

Lezingen

lezingenreeks
11.01.–01.03.2009
On Post-Secularism

lezing
11.01.2009
Mythic Narratives of Secularism and Religion

Publicaties

Boek
The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handboek)
niet meer verkrijgbaar

Reader
The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
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Tentoonstelling


Sven Lütticken, Carl Andre, Carel Blotkamp, Guy Debord, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Rod Dickinson, Tom McCarthy, Hans Haacke, Arnoud Holleman, Imi Knoebel, Gert Jan Kocken, Krijn de Koning, Willem Oorebeek, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Lidwien van de Ven


Lezingenprogramma

15 februari 2023, 10.00-18.00

A series of practical publishing workshops hosted by an active squat and anarchist social center in Amsterdam and organized by the Bookbinding Studio of Sandberg Instituut/Rietveld Academy and Lila Athanasiadou. 

Community Portal

4 februari 2023, 13.00-18.00

Using the sancocho (a pan-Latin American soup with no fixed recipe) as a tool for research and encounter, Mercado Lourdes (Bogotá, Colombia) will host and organize a series of field meals. These events activate and connect the multiple affects that have resulted from ongoing research with local producers into the biodiversity of the territory.  

Community Portal

16 december 2022, 15.00-17.00



In all continents, people have built matriarchal cosmologies sustained by complex rituals. In the advent of main modern religions and after centuries of colonizing invasions, the goddesses of antiquity were suppressed by the patriarchal structures that consolidated our era. However, they found ways to speak to us in the language of patterns, melodies, and poems. This workshop uses the voice as a method to reveal the presence of goddesses. 



Community Portal

27 januari, 18.30–29 januari, 21.00 2023

During these sessions—part of the bASIC aCTIVIST kITCHEN (b.a.k.) program in collaboration with Berend Bombarius, De Voorkamer and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst—we want to collectively explore the topic of setting up community kitchens. Different strategies, tools, methodologies, and contexts are explored to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the practices and theories of community kitchens.

Community Portal