23 May–18 June 2023
Program
BAK programming combines the artistic, experiential, theoretical, and political so as to imagine and enact transformative ways, with and through art, of being together otherwise. BAK’s current research trajectory Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing) is prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of fascisms, historical and contemporary. BAK organizes exhibitions, lectures, publications, workshops, and composite performative conferences with exhibitionary, discursive, and performative elements.
Calendar
Current & Upcoming
Education Program
Suggestions from the archive
Discursive
18 October 2018, 19.30-21.30
Propositions #7/1: Counter Forensics
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Forensic Justice, Eyal Weizman and Christina Varvia give a lecture on the forensic practice of research agency Forensic Architecture. This is also the first gathering of Propositions #7: Evidentiary Methods—the public program in the context of the exhibition Forensic Justice and part of the BAK series Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–2020).
Learning
16 April, 16.00–15 April, 18.00 2023
Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution
Artist Alfred Marasigan, artist and priest Jason Dy, SJ, curator and death companion Staci Bu Shea, and curator Renan Laru-an are interested in notions of care/nurture and control/subjugation, mortality/death and existence/life, as well as rituals/gestures and mediums/objects. These embodied/tensive experiences are posed for reconsideration in light of the new order/disorder of pandemic time.
Public program
14 June 2022, 18.00-20.00
Hamburg Public Editorial Meeting: Spectral Infrastructure
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.
Public program
19 December 2019, 19.00-21.00
KSU X Basic Activist Kitchen: Rojava – Kurdish autonomous region
An evening of information and discussion on the Rojava region and its resistance against fascist oppression, organized by Kritische Studenten Utrecht (KSU) and the Basic Activist Kitchen as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet.
