BAK on 'care'
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
… the space during the Open kitchen Weekender (17—19 October 2024) come from a collective attempt to practice DIY with …
Convention: public program
Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs Saturday 25 May 2024 12–22.00 hrs PRACTICAL INFORMATION The public progra…
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
AAAAA An Amazing Arboretum As Actual Art
bak Young Fellows, 2023 presents: AAAAA An Amazing Arboretum As Actual Art Dark forests tend to scare us. Not kn…
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
…ir-accessible ground floor. NOTES FROM THE KITCHEN On days one to five, collective vegan lunch is served at 12 hrs, …
Mental Health Symposium: Communal care & Healing
…o discuss urgent topics. Currently, we are in a mental health crisis, with endless waiting lists and lack of sufficient …
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…overed that art and biology articulate a sensitivity and pedagogy of powerful plants, with the subtlety of feeding from …
Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution
… priest Jason Dy, SJ, curator and death companion Staci Bu Shea, and curator Renan Laru-an are interested in notions of …
Ulises Friends School
…lational as opposed to transactional. Friendship, as a practice of mutual trust, hospitality, intimacy, generosity, and …
Too Late To Say Sorry?
…o sensitive…” “Can’t you take a joke?” A bad apology can ruin a friendship, destroy a community, or end a …
Stranded FM: Connect/Re:connect – On The (Im)possibilities of Online Radio
…counter. Yet, with an increasing focus on DJ mixes, video content, and self-promotion, a lot of the experimentation and …
Publifluor: Resharpening Blobby
… plastic cells of their vinyl existence. With the help of our freshly resharpened Blobby stock, we will offer Crickx …
HKU Graduation Project 2023: Refractions
…low new knowledge, awareness and understanding to emerge by sharing time, stories, concerns and fears. In this setting, …
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…is “legacy” of colonial violence, from architecture as a form of social and psychological control, to mental health …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…, culture, and repair in modernity and coloniality, and have explored the spaces and capacities of transversal forms of …
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…is “legacy” of colonial violence, from architecture as a form of social and psychological control, to mental health …
Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade
17 April–3 July 2021 Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade is a three-month collective study program conceptualized …
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
Le Guess Who? Group Listening
…rious endeavors, their shared love for the likes of Moondog, Artie Shaw, Arthur Russell and Brian Eno survived. The duo …
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
…poser Angel Bat Dawid. Both women tap into the meaning and history of black life and experimental forms of radical self-…
Collective Performance: Open Access, with Carmen Papalia
…by Papalia, the public is invited into a collectively envisioned space emerging from the principles of trust and mutual …
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…nstitution, and considers notions of civic practice, collaborative learning and radical pedagogy, solidarity and mutual …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…e d’Otranto in southern Italy, and draws upon the knowledge of evolutionary plant-breeding by agronomist Salvatore Cec…
Allegoric Postcard Union
… in collaboration, and as such function as an aesthetic and political abstraction of the moment. Each depicted scene is …
Test Department #1
… nourished discussions (avid, at times!) loaded with productively conflicting intellectual and artistic positions. To …
Instituting Otherwise
…e institutional practices in myriad arenas: from the state, law, and democracy to infrastructures of education, health, …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…stern society—from guest workers to refugees—discriminated against on all possible levels, from education to health …
WomenSpeak!
…I come from? De Zindering, Stadsschouwburg, Lucasbolwerk 24, Utrecht Sunday 20.04.2008, 15.00–18.00 hrs No. 3 Who …
Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions: Critical Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Society
…ersity students and for people outside academia, such as professionals in the fields of art and curators early in their …
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político
…ical in De Bruijne’s genealogy, as it addresses the common space of cleaners, domestic workers, and artists as one of …
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…
Micro-Resistances
In the interview, Arango shares about Grupo Semillas, an organization that has supported Indigenous and peasant communit…
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…
Scarecrows
“Scarecrows” is a visual essay by artist Jumana Manna. Here, Manna images daily acts of defiance by Palestinians for…
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
… has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practices of relational …
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporal…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
Pig Eater
Weaving fantasies of abundance and the abolition of work; of feasting and resting; of sabotage, anachronism, and the fuc…
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
To Live the Coming Death
… of populations, identified in the historico-philosophical analyses of Michel Foucault. Enlightened state husbandry and …
The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handbook)
This handbook is part of The Return of Religion and Other Myths, a large-scale multifaceted project, consisting of …
Gerardo Gomez Tonda
… patriarchy, fascism, precarity, and so forth). While consciously leaning towards socio-ecological accountability and …
Andrea Knezovic
During the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, Knezović aims to connect and look back at the history of The Non-Align…
Ayça Yüksel
Yüksel’s research for the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice emphasizes the perspective that humans are not separat…
Varduhi Balyan
In her first documentary film Dialogue in a Basket/url, she and her elderly Turkish neighbor Fatma together explore th…
Barbara Hammer
“My work makes these invisible bodies and histories visible. As a lesbian artist,” Hammer stated, “I found little …
Samanta Arango Orozco
…ima, Risaralda, and Quindío, who resist mining-energy- and agro-industrial projects, advocating for the protection and …
Jason Allen-Paisant
Allen-Paisant graduated from the University of Oxford, Oxford in 2015, and joined the University of Leeds in 2016 as a L…
Sandra Lange
…on as a tool to unpack ableism in institutional infrastructures. As a crip coach, Lange shares knowledge about self-…
Helianthe Kort
…sers at Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven. Her areas of expertise include technology in medicine and health …
Habiba Chrifi-Hammoudi
Habiba Chrifi-Hammoudi Habiba Chrifi-Hammoudi is a social worker. She is an informal care consultant and coordinator at …
Evi Lachana
Evi Lachana is a producer of traditional and environmentally friendly skin care products. She recently collaborated with…
Nico Angiuli
Nico Angiuli is an artist whose work broaches subjects such as immigration, labor conditions, and (the mediatization of)…
Collective Dictionary: Xenia with Elena Isayev
Elena Isayev is a historian and professor at University of Exeter uses the ancient Mediterranean to explore migration, …
Janna Graham
…sible” in response to the social inequalities of urban space. She also ran a three-year program of artists working in …
Carl Martin Faurby
…Workers), an organization that strives for better working conditions for art workers within the first 10 years of their …
Luigi Coppola
…hnic communities by politician and activist Alexander Langer and evolutionary plant breeding by agronomist Salvatore Cec…
