Conversation

18 May 2008

Master Humphrey’s Clock

During an intensive research period at BAK in preparation for major upcoming projects–part of which evolve through a series of public lectures and discussion groups with Utrecht University–BAK’s exhibition premises are temporarily made available for hosting a selection of short-term presentations developed by contemporary art and culture institutions in Utrecht and the Netherlands.

On Sunday 18 May 2008 at 16.00 hrs BAK, basis voor actuele kunst hosts an artist’s talk by Michael Stevenson as part of the project Master Humphrey’s Clock, organized by the participants of the Curatorial Programme 2007/2008, de Appel, Amsterdam.

On the same day a guided tour with the curators of Master Humphrey’s Clock commences at 13.00 hrs at Het Gebouw by Stanley Brouwn and Bertus Mulder: Hogeweide 3B, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht.

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Sint Maarten Parade

22 October–10 November 2023

BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023

For Sint Maarten Parade 2023, Tools for Action—a non-profit organization that develops artistic interventions for political actions—collaborates with Utrecht-based members of Filipino, Caribbean, and other communities to collectively dream a parade compartment.

Crowdfunding Campaign

09 September–08 December 2023

Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign: Support Freefilmers!

The project To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) and the project To Watch the War, In Solidarity are accompanied by a crowdfunding campaign in support of Freefilmers—some of its members are artists and activist filmmakers included in the exhibition and public program.

Panel Discussion

30 September 2023, 16.30-18.30

To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall

A book launch and panel discussion reflecting on the Jina Uprising, one year after its beginning.

Saturday, 30 September, 2023, 16:30–18:30 hrs at BAK, basis actuele kunst, Utrecht Organized by Jina Collective, a Netherlands-based feminist, leftist, anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, and pro-LQBTQIA+ action group that emerged from the Jina Uprising. This event launches a book of translated essays, co-published with BAK, which include some of the first English translations of texts by journalists […]

Public Program

09 September–29 October 2023

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)/Public Program

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) involves a hybrid off- and online sequence of conversations and screenings around discursive and artistic interventions that reimagine the social implications of watching the war through ways that disrupt, subvert, resist the media’s incessant spectacularization of war.