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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…
OPEN CALL: bak Young fellows
You can apply through this application form! Have you ever imagined a different world? Do you have ideas on how to do …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary marks the culmination of a vibrant and inspiring 2017/20…
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
…ions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–2020); our connected fellowship Program, which hosts 10 exemplary interdisciplinary …
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
The group exhibition First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger inquires into the emotional infrastructure…
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
A Wishlist for Trans*feminist Servers
A Wishlist for Trans*feminist Servers The Cell for Digital Discomfort, together with the other fellows involved in the 2…
Digital Discomfort
Digital Discomfort Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort…
75 years of dispossession. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade.
75 years of dispossession. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade. We at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrech…
NO TO WAR!!!
In these dark days, we stand in solidarity with the millions of residents of Ukraine whose lives are endangered and irre…
Philippa Driest
Her research asks: how can independent social housing, cultural agencies, and city-making organizations work in the afte…
Iliada Charalambous
During the fellowship of Situated Practices she intends to examine the democratic potential and limitations of assembly …
Joud Al-Tamimi
… founded Asphalt, a platform for self-organized study, research and artistic production. Currently, she is completing a …
Marianne Shaneen
…en Marianne Shaneen writes fiction, essays, and poetry, who also works in documentary video. She has been awarded …
Özge Açıkkol
Since 2013, with Oda Projesi she questions the transformation capacity of the artist-mother subject through a series of…
Gesyada Siregar
Gesyada Siregar is a curator, writer, and art organizer. She is subject coordinator for articulation and curation at G…
Laura Raicovich
Laura Raicovich Laura Raicovich is a curator and writer. She is the recipient of the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journal…
Thiago de Paula Souza
…strict of São Paulo as a curator and educator with a background in the social sciences. In 2018/2019 he was one of the …
Whitney Stark
Whitney Stark is a theorist and facilitator who works with alternative pedagogies and organizational practices, theory, …
Archival Propositions
BAK 2018/2019 fellows Jessica de Abreu and Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh present at Propositions #7/6: Archive, the final iteratio…
Concerning War: A Critical Reader
Irit Rogoff is a writer, teacher, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theor…
Council
…es. Founded in 2013, Council curates exhibitions, creates public programming, commissions artworks and texts, and has a …
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
Stefano Harney is author with Fred Moten of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and&nbs…
Oleksiy Radynski: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living video statement, 2017
In the waves of devastation as war is waged on Ukraine, we republish the video statement made by Oleksiy Radynski (filmm…
Collective Dictionary: Political
In April 2016, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, brought to life the Here We Are Academy: a spirited temporary recompositio…
Mijke van der Drift at Love Spells & Rituals for Another World
BAK 2019/2020 Fellow Mijke van der Drift presents her research The Logic of Loss in Bonding in the talk “Realisitcally…
Collective Dictionary: Xenia with Elena Isayev
Elena Isayev is a historian and professor at University of Exeter uses the ancient Mediterranean to explore migration, …
Sepake Angiama
BAK 2017/2018 Fellow Sepake Angiama co-curates the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial …And Other Such Stories. As p…
Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona
Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona is a writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist. He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthro…
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…
Fear, Communciation, and Jung: Faranak Mirjalili, Omar Mismar, and Imogen Stidworthy
Emerging from her research trajectory, BAK 2019/2020 Fellow Katia Krupennikova convenes a series of online sessions and …
Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto (Campus in Camps) with Pelin Tan
Contribution to Propositions #1: What We Mean, a performative conference that begins from an urgency for—and uncertain…
Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto with Pelin Tan
Propositions #6 - The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto (Campus in Camps) w…
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Propositions #6 - The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary The script is compiled from fragments of various texts …
Quinsy Gario
Propositions #6 - The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary Quinsy Gario with Jörgen Gario, Gloria Holwerda-William…
Matthijs de Bruijne and Cecilia Vallejos
Propositions #6 - The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary Propositions #6 - Matthijs de Bruijne and Cecilia Vall…
Luigi Coppola I
Propositions #6 - The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary Luigi Coppola’s ongoing research into “evolutionary…