BAK on 'basics'
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
They are bodies that turn the everyday life problem of language into practices of resistance. Through trainings, perform…
Scarecrows
“Scarecrows” is a visual essay by artist Jumana Manna. Here, Manna images daily acts of defiance by Palestinians for…
In Some Places the Not-Yet Has Long Been Already
These ancestral catastrophes, she writes, “keep arriving out of the ground that colonialism and racism tilled, rather …
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
To Live the Coming Death
This text was published some months before the Covid-19 pandemic began to produce a massive death toll, which has contri…
Fragments of Repair
…BAK’s publishing series basics (2019-ongoing) which revisits fundamental questions and urgencies of our time—the “…
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London are proud to announce the release of Towa…
Deserting from the Culture Wars
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Deserting from the Culture Wars, …
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Propositions for Non-Fascist Livi…
