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.
Exhibitionary
16 October–29 November 2020
As part of exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, Cokes’s video work c.my.skull.2. (Evil.13: Alternate Versions) is screened in public space until 29 November 2020! The work is on view in the window of Stadhuisbrug 5 (until Monday 2 November 2020), and in the window of Utrecht City Hall, Stadhuisbrug 1 (until Sunday 29 November 2020).
Exhibition and public program
16 October 2020–10 January 2021
Currently (16 October 2020–10 January 2021) on view at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst: Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, an exhibition and public program with and around the work of multimedia artist Tony Cokes.
Education Program
26 October–30 November 2020
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.
Lecture
18-19 June 2015
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?
Exhibition
04 September–29 November 2015
Considering nature as a rights-bearing subject, Forest Law (2014)—a collaborative video-installation by artist-researcher Ursula Biemann and architect Paulo Tavares—brings us to Ecuador where, not without challenges of its own, this radically altered relationship to the earth and the natural world has become possible.
Lecture
5 January 2015
Maria Hlavajova speaks about the current Zeitgeist and the position of the artist within the framework of the Honger naar radicaliteit. Dood aan de nuance project at De Theaterschool, Amsterdam.
Exhibition
30 November 2008–01 March 2009
Exhibition by Sven Lütticken.
