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.
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17 April 2025
b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU#6
with: Garage School of Medicine22 April 2025
Reading Counterpower Amsterdam x BAK Basecamp
How do we build together? How do we work towards collective liberation?22 April 2025
New Women Connectors - Storytelling Basecamp
call for participants - info session24 April 2025
b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN VOKU#7
with Weaving Labs31 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 broProgram
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
