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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2 May 2025
Academy of Democratic Modernity educational session
72 hour seminar event organised by the Academy of Democratic Modernity7 May 2025
Palestine Lab met Conflicts Studies Universiteit Utrecht
Reclaiming the Digital: Stories from Palestine10 May 2025
Sculpting Our Stories: Queer Clay Circle
Join us for a queer clay workshop and conversation among BIPOC trans and queer fellows!15 May 2025
Networking Situated Kitchens: Slow Cooked Dining and Culinary Co-Learning
FieldMealResearch with b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN at BAK-basecamp, SAVVY Contemporary, Wilde 24 at MACBA, Barcelona, Spain16 May 2025
Werkconferentie Exploding Practices
Hoe kunnen kunstenaars onderdeel te zijn van maatschappelijke processen, zonder daarin te worden geïnstrumentaliseerd?17 May 2025
Rehearsal of Justice
Rehearsal of Justice is a series of participatory gatherings in May and June where communities and individuals come together to rehearse and enact justice. Concept, dramaturgy and host Ehsan Fardjadniya.17 May 2025
Rehearsal of Justice #1
With Ehsan Fardjadniya, Souleyman, Joset van de Hoeven, Shadows United, Larrisa Vlieger, Julien Ignacio17 May 2025
Flor-es-ser; visions on motherings
In this gathering, we wish to explore visions of nurturing that expand beyond the everyday, from the mother-child dynamic; to our personal relationships, to our intimate connection with the land itself.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.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
