BAK on 'archive'
Spectral Infrastructure
Citizens and Subjects
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
Marquard Smith
…2014; and The Global archive, Hanmi Gallery, London, 2012. Smith writes on artistic research, practice-based research, …
Amy Balkin
Amy Balkin is an artist whose projects focus on climate change and its physical, political, and economic impacts. Ongoin…
Oleksiy Radynski
His films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam; Oberhausen International Short Film Fe…
Is Data the New Gas?
“In 2017, The Economist famously claimed that “data is the new oil.” At the time, Wendy Chun’s response to thi…
Sepake Angiama
BAK 2017/2018 Fellow Sepake Angiama co-curates the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial …And Other Such Stories. As p…
Laura McLean
Laura McLean is a curator, researcher, and artist. Holding an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, and a BVA and MVA…
Lisette Lagnado
…tgraduate Masters Programme in Visual Arts at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, São Paulo. Lagnado was the coordinator of the …
Barby Asante
Barby Asante is an artist, curator, and educator. She received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of East London, L…
Nancy Adajania
…n the visual arts and political intervention. Adajania has contributed essays and reviews to numerous magazines and her …
Seminar with Andrea Phillips
As part of a session convened by 2017/2018 BAK Fellow Otobong Nkanga, educator and political organizer in the arts Andre…
Matteo Lucchetti
…st project to develop curatorial and discursive possibilities for the new online platform of the research—the digital …
Quinsy Gario
…t international references are explored by considering language, colonial violence, religion, and the political role of …
Symposium As for Protocols III
Symposium As for Protocols: To Hold Things Together 20-21 May 2021. Curated by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht an…
