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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
… conventional fictions and their established doctrines and institutions requires tapping into knowledges that offer new …
Digital Discomfort
Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD)—composed …
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…
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…
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…
Paula Montecinos Oliva
… Practice, explores the extension of the radiophonic format as a performative space that links bodies, listening, sonic …
Yuliia Elyas
…ated Practice focuses on a decolonial reimagining of the narrative surrounding Ukraine and its representation in museum …
Larry Achiampong
…ions examine constructions of “the self” by splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal …
Gesyada Siregar
… Indonesia art writings from the period of the 1940 to the 1990s, and how she can intertwine them. She likes to explore …
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…
Chandra Frank
Chandra Frank is an independent curator and feminist scholar. She interrogates the roles of archives, transnational quee…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
