14 September–01 October 2020
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 (2017–2020) 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
Exhibition
30 September–11 October 2020
HKU MA Fine Art Graduation Show: If Not Now
From 30 September–11 October 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht hosts If Not Now, the graduation exhibition of the 2018−2020 MA Fine Art class of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, curated by Katia Krupennikova.
Exhibition and public program
16 October 2020–10 January 2021
Education Program
26 October–30 November 2020
Course: Art as Politics [Rerun on Request]
Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers yet another rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 26 October & 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 November 2020. This digital extension of BAK Public Studies, taught by Maria Hlavajova, is prompted by the urgency to continue collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present.
Suggestions from the archive
08 September 2015–24 June 2017
Instituting Otherwise
In 2016–2017, BAK dedicates a series of discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute otherwise.”
Training
27 November–01 December 2019
Training XVI: An Investigation into Collective Work Processes for Self-Determination
The sixteenth training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with Hamada al-Joumah and Jasmine Eid-Sabbagh, and takes place 27 November–1 December 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday). This training focuses on discussions, collective readings, presentations, and exercises for developing a resource box for collective working and decision-making process.
Lecture
18-19 June 2015
Algorithmic Cultures and Security
Fourth gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series. How could we address the impact of contemporary digital technologies on security and surveillance mechanisms and its influence on posthuman subject-formation?
Education Program
18-22 August 2014
Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
The intensive course Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation explores critical theory in the tradition of Continental philosophy, with special reference to the works of philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, Henri Bergson, and Rosi Braidotti.