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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

Exhibition

09 September–29 October 2023

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)   

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) is a moving image forum which takes place at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht from 9 September to 29 October 2023. It is convened from within the experimental film and video making that has emerged in direct response to the Russian war on Ukraine that began with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and which continues to date as a full-scale invasion.  

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.

Book Fair

Lecture and Conversation

28 September 2023

To Watch Around, To Watch Outside

Thursday, 28 September 2023, 18.00 hrs Lecture and conversation with researcher and art historian Asia BazdyrievaRegister tickets here In this lecture, Bazdyrieva discusses the material implications of the sociotechnical imaginaries that contribute to the “resourcification” of Ukraine—wherein its land, natural resources, and people are viewed as an inexhaustible resource that is constitutively “outside” of European sustainability […]

Screening and Conversation

12 October 2023

Images of Labor: De/Occupation of Watching

Thursday, 12 October 2023, 18.00 hrsScreening and conversation with filmmaker and activist Sashko ProtyahRegister tickets here The experimental film My Favorite Job (2022), by Sahsko Protyah, screened on this occasion, documents the labor and the idle moments of a volunteer group who evacuated residents from the city of Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops, in spring […]

Performative Lecture

26 October 2023

Contemporary History of Ukraine, 11th Rehearsal

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 18.00 hrsPerformative lecture by documentary filmmaker and artist Oksana Kazmina Register tickets here This lecture is the eleventh rehearsal of a virtual walk through transpersonal landscapes of memories across various Ukrainian localities. Based on footage and chats with (intimate) friends, Kazmina navigates between different digital environments—including personal videos, recorded conversations, and Google […]

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Lecture

Opening weekend

14 September, 13.00–15 September, 18.00 2019

Opening: Trainings for the Not-Yet/The City Staircase

The opening weekend of Trainings for the Not-Yet, an exhibition project in collaboration with artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, takes place during the cultural Uitfeest in Utrecht. It opens with The City Staircase (Het trappenhuis van de stad): a series of conversations with around eighty Utrecht residents, on how they envision the future of the city of Utrecht.

Inleiding

4 September, 15.00–5 September, 16.30 2021

Inleiding op Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia, exclusief voor Museumkaarthouders

Speciaal voor Museumkaarthouders, op zaterdag 4 en zondag 5 september: een exclusieve inleiding op Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia, de eerste uitgebreide tentoonstelling van kunstenaar Kader Attia in Nederland. Met video’s, fotografie, collages, installaties en sculpturale werken, gericht op Attia’s concept van ‘dekoloniaal herstel’.

BAK, basis voor...

2 March 2019, 14.00-17.00

Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women

BAK, basis voor New Women Connectors

New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht present the gathering Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women. Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women gathers refugee and migrant women from all backgrounds to learn about and share challenges that women newcomers experience, and how to veer these challenges toward solutions for policy and community forums to act upon effectively.

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