Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
To meet this moment, in which political, social, economic, and climate crises overlap and amplify each other, requires direct action and intervention. Basecamp radically embodies cultural infrastructure in order to leverage the imagining possible for it. Imagining is central to life in which we convene for resilience, survival, renewal and repair. Basecamp offers itself as site and structure towards intimacy, critique, exploration, possibility, and action.
Read more...
18 September 2025
Organized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN with co-conspirers in the FieldMealNetwork: Marina Monsonís (Barcelona), Giulia Orlandi (Berlin) and Abraham Tettey (Ghana)
16, 17 & 18 September
Open Kitchen: FieldMealNetwork Session
Roundtables, workshops, RadioShow, food & freeshopOrganized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN with co-conspirers in the FieldMealNetwork: Marina Monsonís (Barcelona), Giulia Orlandi (Berlin) and Abraham Tettey (Ghana)
16, 17 & 18 September
20 September 2025
Organized by Iliada Charalambous with Garage School of Medicine
(Santiago Pinyol and Kari Robertson)
part of Assembling in Resistance
14:00 - 18:00
Metabolic Literacies 3 : Preservation and Transformation
vinegar making workshop, reading and discussionOrganized by Iliada Charalambous with Garage School of Medicine
(Santiago Pinyol and Kari Robertson)
part of Assembling in Resistance
14:00 - 18:00
20 September 2025
to critically discuss transgender healthcare
within local and global contexts
12:00 - 14:00
Trans healthcare Study Collective
monthly study groupto critically discuss transgender healthcare
within local and global contexts
12:00 - 14:00
25 September 2025
organized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
18:00 - 21:00
Open Kitchen
VOKU & Freeshoporganized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
18:00 - 21:00
26 September 2025
celebrating cultures, survival and our victories
georganiseerd door Triwish Hanoeman
17:00 - 22:00
Piece the Resístance #1 - Mic Check: stories & rhythms
maandelijks muziek café met een missiecelebrating cultures, survival and our victories
georganiseerd door Triwish Hanoeman
17:00 - 22:00
26 September 2025
organized in the context of Assembling in Resistance
with the Anti-Imperialist Network NL
18:00 - 21:00
On Unequal Exchange
presentation and collective discussionorganized in the context of Assembling in Resistance
with the Anti-Imperialist Network NL
18:00 - 21:00
27 September 2025
organized by Colored Qollective
Let's Talk About Family
annual symposiumorganized by Colored Qollective
3 October 2025
organized by Bond Precaire Woonvormen
19:30 - 22:00
Fight for your housing rights!
workshoporganized by Bond Precaire Woonvormen
19:30 - 22:00
31 March 2025
Welcome to the Basecamp
In this blog I, Angelina Kumar, artist and fellow pioneer for positive change, will attempt, bi-weekly, to capture and share glimpses and insights of the brave and ever evolving journey that is unfolding at the Basecamp for tactical Imaginaries.3 April 2025
All things great and small
This day and meal has given me a refreshing glimpse into potential prospects for the future. Especially, when we work together to make space and place for regenerative ways of being where non-human life is fostered daily.17 April 2025
Glossary of Soup Making
“It is quite a good metaphor and practice to initiate conversations about commoning and in general about politicising food. Because soup is something that everyone relates too since the dawn of time. Some people say that we even come from primordial bro24 April 2025
Memory & Hospicing
This week I was pleasantly surprised to hear that medicine was being explored at the Basecamp. Garage School of Medicine, led by Kari Robertson and Santiago Pinyol. A sweet couple with their 5-year-old daughter.8 May 2025
Reading Counter Power
We need core shared values. Open spaces where we can practice enacting what it means to live in a different kind of world that we envision.29 May 2025
Storytelling: Hi-Story
The stories that are told and shared are the ones that we remember in history, so it’s important to question whose stories are being told and who is telling the story?12 June 2025
Storytelling Workshop (Part 2)
Storytelling is a tool of advocacy. By telling your story in your own words you make people aware of your journey and history.Program
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
On 30 June 2025, after 25 years of service, BAK’s founding director Maria Hlavajova will step down from her position as general director.
1 April 2025
30 June 2025
Program
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
Marking the beginning of a new phase, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht embarks upon a six-month period of thinking and planning.
1 January 2025
30 June 2025
Program
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
The FreeShop is a place where nothing is for sale, and everything is free.
1 January 2025
31 December 2025
Program
Climate Propagandas Congregation
A new two-day congregation to study climate propagandas to propagate alternative presents and futures.
14 December 2024
15 December 2024
Program
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
A symposium that centers on a table reading of Marival (1996) by Felix de Rooy, a landmark play about Caribbean queer experience in the shadow of Dutch postcolonialism.
1 December 2024
1 December 2024
