Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today. Due to renovations the building is closed, we will reopen on the 8th of September with a new programme. For updates and upcoming events, please visit this website.
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today. Due to renovations the building is closed, we will reopen on the 8th of September with a new programme. For updates and upcoming events, please visit this website.
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.
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11 September 2025
organized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
OPEN KITCHEN : a sonic session
VOKU, freeshop and -Vinyl Only- dj set with DJ Frank and Komodovaraanorganized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
12 September 2025
for and by the youth, organized by Raidan Baqi
Young Revolt : Spoken Word Rumble
Poetry workshop, performance and pop-up expofor and by the youth, organized by Raidan Baqi
13 September 2025
organized by Iliada Charalambous with the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals
on the Urgent Task of Organizing and Unifying Forces in a Demanding World
Seminar Seriesorganized by Iliada Charalambous with the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals
16 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)
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)
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
