BAK on 'body'
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…leagues and friends who have suffered institutional violence and are no longer among us, addressing the politics of the …
Climate Propagandas Congregation
…ings together research models, ideas, and tools for deliberation in an immersive diorama: a large-scale installation, em…
(Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling
…fort and discomfort can never be entirely separated. From the social and communal to the personal realm of the mind and …
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
… and tomorrow. Working from van Heeswijk’s long-time collective practice of learning by radically imagining and em…
Pride at BAK: Queer Film Program
The queer film program covers a variety of topics: gender history, exceptional stories of queer individuals, a proposal …
Chapter one, exhibition
…ossession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans. The exhibition includes an earlier …
Usufructuaries of earth
…r—Usufructuaries of earth calls on forms, tactics, and shared practices of “use” to think through, imagine, and em…
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…hborhood and a network of affections are articulated. This way, each product is a journey traceable to the hands of the …
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…antel piece that will present some of the questions that emerged during our conversations in the escuela (school). Every…
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis
…t. Decision-making processes, setting up conflict-positive spaces, and complaint-making as diversity work will form the …
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall
…es from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Moderators Katayoon Barzegar is a visual artist and researcher. Notions of …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial body (online)
…scholar and activist, Lisbon). The body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial body tackles police violence and racial …
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings
The gatherings take place on a fortnightly basis (at BAK and on bakonline.org) between 2 May–26 September 2021. Confir…
International Migrant Day: a walk by the Basic Activist Kitchen
…rn those lost to these brutal policies. Walk with us to stay awhile with the pain and the suffering, heavy to carry in …
Unrestricted Sociality
…former, and educator Joy Mariama Smith. Departing from Mariama Smith’s investigation into the interplay between the …
RIR in Public: Sopawan Boonnimitra
… “home” have been dismantled by the contemporary condition of mobility and migration as well as the presence of the …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…tory for the historical rise of Fascism in modern Italy, with particular focus on Futurism’s obsessions with the male …
Instituting Otherwise
… trajectory Future Vocabularies (2014–2017), the series Instituting Otherwise probes ways of imagining—as well as em…
RIR in Public: On movement, thought and politics
…sed dance artist and co-instigator of the dance journal project itch. Her work is inspired by various discourses on the …
There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?
…was able to learn from? Could this be why memory reaches out to the realms of art and performance, to re-enactments and …
ABiotic Factors
…rlands creates its own migratory existence; micro events in the streets of Utrecht trigger poetic narratives; the inner …
Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a
This separation is situated in a vast history of coloniality as capitalist development: violence, land grabbing, regulat…
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
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…
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
Collective Dictionary: Political
…ulum and gather with refugees, artists, students, researchers, and activists to continue our commitment to writing-by-em…
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Secret Proof
Responding to the experiences of evidence production by Jemez Pueblo members in New Mexico, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik’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…
Immortals: On the Ancient Future Lives of Stone and Plastic
As quasi-immortal materials, stone and plastic bear witness to the catastrophic effects of extractive linearity, while a…
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…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
Pig Eater
Weaving fantasies of abundance and the abolition of work; of feasting and resting; of sabotage, anachronism, and the fuc…
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…
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
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
…ember of the people. Romanticism’s answer was to idealize an organic and ethnically homogenous Volk as the biological …
To Live the Coming Death
…ckoned along local and global axes, has been daily iterated in graphs, charts, percentages, and logarithmic scales. The …
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…eorists who have engaged with thinking critically about the field of art as a site for the production of knowledge. The …
Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice
The inaugural publication in the BAK Critical Readers in Artists’ Practice Series, Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reade…
Marion von Osten,
…lel to BAK’s acclaimed series of Critical Readers in Contemporary Art, this publishing line examines the practice and …
Maoyi Qiu
Through this, they aim to shed light on the affective aspects of technology on emotions and corporeal experiences. They …
Vishnu Vardhani Rajan
Sleep, conflict, nutrition, gaze, and surveillance are research interests in their philosophy. Night politics, conflict-…
melanie bonajo
Through their videos, performances, photographs, and installations, they examine current conundrums of coexistence in a …
Barbara Hammer
“My work makes these invisible bodies and histories visible. As a lesbian artist,” Hammer stated, “I found little …
Jumana Manna
…Arts, Oslo. Manna’s practice explores how power is articulated through relationships, thereby often focusing on the …
xin
xin xin is an artist, writer, and musician. Their debut LP, MELTS INTO LOVE, was released by Subtext in 2019.
Sandra Lange
…p. The design of spaces, exchanges, and trainings is rooted in intersectionality, theories of complex embodiment, …
Marina Papazyan
…er. They thread together semi-fictions about themself by way of writing, voicing and recording. Their works rely on the …
İlyas Odman
…s a choreographer and performance artist whose interests lie in creating layers through what is happening to a specific …
Urok Shirhan
…on to power and affect. Her projects are often entangled with found materials and autobiographic narratives. Her latest …
Joy Mariama Smith
…bility, projected identities, and self-representation in different contexts, and investigates the interplay between the …
Athena Athanasiou
…; Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, 2013); and Life at the Limit: Essays on gender, …
Péter Fuchs
…pand the notion of exhibition—through research into a new audience: the blog-sphere, a large, internationally diverse …
İnci Eviner
İnci Eviner’s body of work is comprised of multilayered pieces that originate from drawings. Ranging from drawings an…
Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day is an artist whose work employs photography, speech, and body language to re-examine political conflicts an…
Marsha Bradfield
…cal styles of fact and fiction as Bradfield works across sites, objects, images, structures, and processes. Her current …
Sopowan Boonnimitra
…w the changing conception of “home” reflects the condition of mobility and migration as well as the presence of the …
Taisha Paggett
… a dance artist and co-instigator of the dance journal project itch. Her work is inspired by various discourses on the …
Falke Pisano
Falke Pisano is an artist whose installations, sculptures, drawings, diagrams, and speech-performances explore the poten…
Kathrin Rhomberg
Kathrin Rhomberg (born 1963) is a curator. She is also an advisor and corresponding member of Secession, Vienna. From 20…
Boyan Manchev
Boyan Manchev (born 1970) is a philosopher and cultural theorist. Currently he is Director of Programs and Vice-Presiden…
