BAK on 'activism'
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…s that challenge conventional understandings of Caribbean performance. Scholars like Lyndon K. Gill, who examines queer …
Academia in the Face of Genocide
…fferent strategies universities in Europe and Israel have adopted to silence Palestinian and pro-Palestinian speech and …
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
It feels harder than ever to imagine a future that is both collectively desirable and achievable. Mainstream politics ha…
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis
…o enabled me to conceive of a landscape for new visions, (re-)empowerment, building community, and gathering energy for …
Belonging: Thou shalt not worship at the altar of access
…writers, and researchers that identify as disabled. Fueled by a strong desire for equity and often with a background in …
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
…Arroyo. Aside from advocating for the rights and welfare of migrants and refugees in the Netherlands, he continues his …
Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade
17 April–3 July 2021 Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade is a three-month collective study program conceptualized …
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
Performance: Black Quantum Futurism
…vist Rasheedah Philips. The duo explores the intersections of imagination, fiction, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…red per (academic) year to Netherlands-based and international practitioners involved in contemporary arts, theory, and …
SPRING presents: Urban Heat Closing Academy
…n opportunity to discuss further some of the topics raised during the Urban Heat laboratories such as art, politics and …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…ails collective work he has been part of at La Colonie, Paris and their attempts to bridge the gap between academia and …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
…ce in the Otherwise is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that brings together those involved in arts, academia, and …
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer
…tions the critical capacity for change in our contemporary reality and shows us a world stage waiting to be filled with …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…f art and labor. Posited as a political problem, these working conditions are examined through the prism of art-related …
Strijd: Art, activism and the University
… Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Emily Rhodes, and Frederike Sperling. The presentations revolve around the practices of art, …
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
Living Without Approval
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy (2015), edited by Renée In der Maur and Jonas Staal in dialogue with D…
ExitStateCraft
…series, while engaging with the ongoing and intensifying problematization of the state in contemporary theory, art, and …
Concerning War: A Critical Reader
Concerning War: A Critical Reader presents new and anthologized texts by artists and writers who analyze the possib…
Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example
The critical reader Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example is a site where issues of fear, anxiety, and (il…
Concerning War: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (Second Edition)
The second edition of Concerning War, A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art includes a new preface and an exte…
Enis Köstepen and Irmak Karasu
Enis Köstepen’s practice includes film criticism, production, research, and activism in anti-war, urban rights, and …
Teresa Borasino
In 2021, Borasino embarked on artistic research into the Andean cosmovision and its tapestry of ancestral knowledge and …
Stephen Duncombe
A lifelong political activist, Duncombe co-founded a community-based group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan which won…
Nadir Sönmez
…bvert the assumptions on conservatism in Turkey. Recent ideas around sexual politics, masculinities, gay culture, queer …
Jinxiao Zhou
…echt School for the Arts, Utrecht, and a bachelor's degree from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing. Through art and …
Sandra Lange
…tems of privilege and power has come about through involvement with both academic and non-academic contexts of art, …
Carol Zou
…al justice, informal labor, and public space. Her work focuses on the relationship between art, culture, community, and …
Alexandra Karyn
…l writing, and light approach classes at Erudio Indonesia, Jakarta. Karyn is one of the initiators of the environmental …
MTL Collective
MTL Collective MTL Collective (Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon) joins research and activism with artistic practice. MTL…
Wan Ing Que
She is concerned with intersectional feminism and anti-colonialism, approaching these from a range of topics, including …
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “ra…
Femke Kaulingfreks
Femke Kaulingfreks is a political philosopher and anthropologist. Her research topics include activism related to housin…
Alexei Penzin
… and intellectual group Chto Delat What is to Be Done?, which works in the space between theory, art, and political …
Gerald Raunig
Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and theoretician on art theory, political aesthetics, cultural politics, and politics of …
Jelena Vesić
…al theory and contemporary art. She is also co-editor of Red Thread – Journal for social theory, contemporary art and …
New Unions
…ough the imaginary of art, New Unions aims to bring together emancipatory forces from the domains of art, politics, and …
Dmitry Vilensky
…2003 by a collective of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers with the goal of merging political theory, art, and …
Airi Triisberg
…Her activities include writing, curating, and organizing. She is interested in the overlapping fields between political …
pantxo ramas
…Permanente per la Salute Mentale nel Mondo in Trieste, and with the blog euronomade.info. pantxo ramas’s research and …
Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona
…n work, class, and post-capitalist politics, and uses a methodology that combines pedagogy, artistic prefiguration, and …
Georgy Mamedov
Georgy Mamedov (born 1984) is a curator. He is also artistic co-director of central Asian artistic, research, and activi…
Christian Höller
Christian Höller (born 1966) is editor of springerin–Hefte für Gegenwartskunst and writes extensively on art and cul…
Chto Delat
…hto Delat?/What is to be done? is a Russian collective, established in 2003, that open a space between theory, art, and …
Kader Attia
…Attia founded La Colonie in Paris’s Gare du Nord area as an open space for decolonial thinking, debate, and cultural …
Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes is an artist who, through sculpture, performance, video, and activism, explores the power of individual and …
Sven Lütticken II
…king point, or tipping point? Are institutions to be undermined, undercommoned, or used as platforms for "institutional …
Digital activism IV
A presentation as part of third gathering in the Mirko Tobias Schäferseries 11.06.–12.06.2015, BAK, Utrecht (NL). …
Digital activism III
A contribution as part of third gathering in the Mirko Tobias Schäferseries 11.06.–12.06.2015, BAK, Utrecht (NL). w…
Digital activism II
A introduction as part of the third gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series, 11.06.–12.06.2015, BAK, Utrecht (NL) …
Digital activism I
A presentation as part of the third gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series, 11.06.–12.06.2015, BAK, Utrecht (NL) …
