Education Program

19 October 2014, 17.00-19.00

The Art of Creating a State

A public discussion with the participants of the fourth New World Academy (NWA) on the role of art and culture in the creation of new states takes place on 19 October 2014 from 17.00–19.00 hrs.

Speakers include: Moussa Ag Assarid (writer and Eurpean representative of the National Liberation Movement of Azawad), Mazou Ibrahim Touré (artist, Artist Association of Azawad), Remco van Bladel (graphic designer, Amsterdam), Gabriëlle Provaas (filmmaker, Amsterdam), Simon P. Sapioper, (representative of the National Government of the Republic of West Papua), Rob Schröder (filmmaker, Amsterdam), Yazan Khalili (artist), Iva Petkovic (representative of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, UNPO) and the participants of this fourth NWA.

Suggestions from the archive

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.