Welcome and Notes on Propositions #1: What We Mean

Photo: Tom Janssen
Opening comments for Propositions #1: What We Mean, by Maria Hlavajova and Matteo Luchetti.
Public program
14 June 2022, 18.00-20.00
As part of the Spectral Infrastructure long-term research trajectory by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and the freethought collective, a Public Editorial Meeting (PEM) is held on Tuesday 14 June 2022 (18–20 hrs) in the Lerchenfeld Aula at HFBK, University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.
Education Program
22 March, 18.30–5 April, 21.00 2022
An online course that was prompted by the urgency to engage in collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present. Taught by Maria Hlavajova, BAK’s general & artistic director. Accepting applications until 20 March 2022.
Education Program
8 February, 18.30–8 March, 21.00 2022
An online course that was prompted by the urgency to engage in collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present. Taught by Maria Hlavajova, BAK’s general & artistic director. Accepting applications until 23 January 2022.
Public program
14 November 2021, 13.00-18.00
Day two as part of the two day program Music as Spectral Infrastructure, part of Le Guess Who? 2021, considers the sound system as a form of spectral infrastructure, and how anti-colonial resistance to racial capitalism was channeled through sound system music such as dub, house, techno, and jungle.