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.
Exhibition and public program
28 February 2020–10 January 2021
[Update 17 May 2020: We are excited to announce that the exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals reopens on 16 October 2020, to run through 10 January 2021.]
From 28 February–17 May 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht proudly presents Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals. An exhibition and public program with and around the work of artist Tony Cokes, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza.
Education Program
29 June–16 July 2020
Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers a rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 29 June & 2, 6, 9, 13, and 16 July 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. Please note: this Open Call is now closed and the course is fully booked.
Lecture
10 January 2015
Maria Hlavajova chairs the Learning & Unlearning session of Artist Organisations International.
Performance
4-5 November 2017
On Saturday 4 November and Sunday 5 November, Frascati hosts performances of the play Faust 3, written by Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann, and produced and performed by Bread and Puppet Theater and local artists with migrant backgrounds. The event is a Frascati Session at Frascati and part of BAK’s long-term research project Propositions for Non-Fascist Living.
Lecture
26 November 2005
Lectures by and discussion with Henk Oosterling, Kendell Geers, and Pavel Büchler.
Public program
19 December 2019, 19.00-21.00
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.
