BAK on 'archive'
Spectral Infrastructure
Citizens and Subjects
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…ith archival research and critical fabulation, Tjien Fooh creates an immersive audiovisual collage. Drawing from family …
To Watch the War: In Solidarity
…23) at BAK, taking place between 9 September and 29 October 2023. It mobilizes artworks from BAK’s former and future …
Research Interrupted
…fficial histories, and subterranean legacies that have enacted and cultivated solidarities against the grain of imposed …
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
… for all. Read BAK's statement below and follow, read, listen, watch, and write along to the rapidly growing solidarity …
A City Within a Building
…y hosted by fellow cultural and educational institutions across the city of Utrecht. The works are curated from BAK’s …
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…te to memory and design for longevity through upcycling, material experimentation, and the resignification of my family …
Belonging: Thou shalt not worship at the altar of access
…n, there is ample room for implicit or explicit discrimination. Without infrastructures in place to navigate access, to …
Stranded FM: Connect/Re:connect – On The (Im)possibilities of Online Radio
Stranded FM (Jolijt Bosch and Luke Cohlen) In the booming online radio world, terms like community and connection a…
Publifluor: Resharpening Blobby
…ighbourhood, composing messages together on the spot. To open up the history and the various elements of the Publifluor …
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…ed works Following the Modern Genealogy (2012–2021) & Untitled (2021), featuring photographs and books from Attia’s …
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
Propositions #7/6: archive
…uths yet to be articulated, histories yet to be written. However, as the cinematic representation of dusty, overflowing …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…t international references are explored by considering language, colonial violence, religion, and the political role of …
Gerrit Dekker: About no below, no above, no sides
…ic images, mostly on slides. Stored in a tower built out of grey boxes (the slide-holders), together the images form an …
Test Department #1
…sed only with the materials available at BAK. Further, the students install an informal “reference room,” a kind of …
Survival
…ing projects. In this way, we wish to draw a line of continuity from within both our dialogues with our publics and our …
Aernout Mik: Raw Footage/Scapegoats
…aw, unedited images of the war in former Yugoslavia, which the artist unearthed after searching for months in the media …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…K team—who contributed to the project, financially and otherwise. For more information, see the project’s digital …
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
… conventional fictions and their established doctrines and institutions requires tapping into knowledges that offer new …
New World Academy Exhibition
… but with a new, developing institution founded by an artist and an art institution, which by now has developed its own …
Strijd: Art, Activism and the University
On 18 May 2016, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht hosts an evening initiated by the curatorial team of Strijd inf…
Revolution after Revolution: The Commune as Line of Flight in Palestinian Anticolonialism
Originally published in Critical Times journal, this essay foregrounds the Palestinian people’s creativity within thei…
Digital Discomfort
Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD)—composed …
“I Am a Cultural Worker”: In Memoriam Ericson Acosta
It is with deep sadness to learn today that poet, musician, cultural worker, and activist Ericson Acosta was killed by P…
In Search of Gilbert and Idrissa: African Students in the USSR
For her contribution to “ExitStateCraft,” artist Sandra Muteteri Hermans presents the script of a film project in pr…
Jose Maria Sison (1939–2022)
It is with great sadness to learn that on 16 December 2022 Professor Jose Maria Sison passed away. Having lived in exile…
To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) Guidebook English
…To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) is at once an exhibition and a research-…
To Read the War
…of texts, visual essays, interviews, conversations, and even entire publications from BAK, basis voor actuele kunst’s …
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
Kahanoff’s Levantinism: The Anachronic Possibilities of a Concept
After the Six-Day War, the Egyptian-born Israeli writer Jacqueline Kahanoff deployed the notion of Levantinism to challe…
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporal…
Dearest Xen (Letters to Lichen)
Through the lenses of xenology (Knouf’s term for the study, analysis, and development of the strange, alien, and other…
Reclaiming Time: On Blackness and Landscape
Drawing from his collection of poems Thinking with Trees, he outlines a colonial epistemology of nature and argues for p…
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
Paula Montecinos Oliva
… Practice, explores the extension of the radiophonic format as a performative space that links bodies, listening, sonic …
Andrea Knezovic
During the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, Knezović aims to connect and look back at the history of The Non-Align…
Yuliia Elyas
…ated Practice focuses on a decolonial reimagining of the narrative surrounding Ukraine and its representation in museum …
Seher Uysal
…K Fellowship program, Uysal intends to investigate the “Heritage of Contemporary Art in Turkey,” through a specific …
Ita Fatia Nadia
…ation Kalyanamitra during the New Order regime and recently co-founded Ruang Arsip dan Sejarah, a research center and …
Publifluor
…bick; publisher, designer, and teacher Olivier Bertrand; designer, typographer, cartographer, teacher, and Crickx …
Linda Zeb Hang
Born in south-side Stockton, California to working-class Hmong refugees, Zeb Hang’s point of origin is rooted in t…
Anna Linder
…lly. Recent projects are the artistic research Queer Moving Images (2013–2017) at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, and the new …
Philip Rizk
…s is: “How do we prepare ourselves for what is to come?” He is a member of the Mosireen video collective behind the …
Larry Achiampong
…ions examine constructions of “the self” by splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal …
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock
…nhan Balatbat-Helbock is a curator and researcher at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, where she is part of the participatory …
Gesyada Siregar
… Indonesia art writings from the period of the 1940 to the 1990s, and how she can intertwine them. She likes to explore …
David Muñoz Alcántara
His recent work looks at militant poetics and radical critique through arts grounded in liberation struggles against cla…
Adelita Husni-Bey
…cho-collectivism, theater, law, and urban studies. She organizes workshops and produces publications, radio broadcasts, …
Jessica de Abreu
Her passionate commitment to the field of African Diaspora has led to research on upward social mobility in New York, Am…
Mira Keratová
…r. Some of her recent curatorial projects include research project Working Memory (tranzit, Bratislava since 2009) with …
Chandra Frank
Chandra Frank is an independent curator and feminist scholar. She interrogates the roles of archives, transnational quee…
Clare Butcher
Clare Butcher is an art educator from Zimbabwe, who cooks as part of her practice. She was an education Coordinator for …
Archival Propositions
BAK 2018/2019 Fellows Jessica de Abreu and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh present at Propositions #7/6: archive, the final iteratio…
Graciela Carnevale
…ng), a collective project and exhibition denouncing hardship in the Tucumán region. She has preserved and organized an …
Miguel A. López
… and researcher Emilio Tarazona), comprises the first major research on the collective work of Grupo Chaclacayo and its …
Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor is a curator, critic, poet, and the director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. In 2015 Enwezor was t…
Stefan Heidenreich
Stefan Heidenreich (born 1965) is a writer and researcher who studied philosophy, communication, and German literature i…