BAK on 'film'
Research in Residence
Chapter three, convention
…lin), MADEYOULOOK (artist collaborative, Johannesburg), Dina Mohamed (researcher, Utrecht), Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona (…
Chapter one, exhibition
…humans. The exhibition includes an earlier body of work Falling is not collapsing, falling is extending (2016) and four …
Usufructuaries of earth
…e exhibition with works by Arsanios—includes the work Falling is not collapsing, falling is extending (2016) and four …
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Originally from Mariupol, Freefilmers began as a network of filmmakers and artists based in Mariupol. After the all-out …
Ulises Friends School
…tantly, make friends. Ongoing activities, with supplies provided, include making friendship bracelets, watching classic …
The Diamond Mind II
…ion and the slip-stream. The psycho-aesthetic signature is cultivated by impermanent transparencies: the moving form in …
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
…on policy, which has accepted only 0,4% of refugee applicants over the last ten years. Thomas Ash, director In his …
To Watch the War
A moving image forum with films and videos by Roman Himey & Yarema Malashchuk, Lisa Hoffmann, Yuriy Hrytsyna, Dana Kavel…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering V: The Object’s Interlacing
… (philosopher New York/Dakar) and Wayne Modest (material culture curator and researcher, Amsterdam/Rotterdam). In his …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
… is an online program, accessible via Zoom and bakonline.org Recorded livestream of this online program (excluding the …
Time for a Break(down): Reimagining Social Flows in the Not-Yet
… Tangier, Morocco (2015–20), as well as the Northwestern University in Qatar Creative Media Festival (2018–20). His …
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
Taste Before You Waste takes over the Basic Activist Kitchen, inviting you to soup and a screening on Monday 18 November…
Le Guess Who? at BAK
…50 performances set to electrify pop venues, theaters, churches, galleries and warehouses. Satellite events with music, …
Cordially Invited, episode 3
…, Nasrin Tabatabai, and Babak Afrassiabi. Each Sunday IDFA presents Europe.doc, IDFA’s gaze on the EUwith documentary …
Oud-Utrecht presents: Yearbook 2018
…aalt daarna over de geschiedenis van Rasa en wereldmuziek in Utrecht. Het programma is divers, met een presentatie, met …
BAK and Nieuwjaarsduik – Forensic Justice
…ondon-based independent and interdisciplinary research agency comprised of, among others, artists, scientists, lawyers, …
The Day After Yesterday
… to return daily to engage in this ritual of searching for the unknown time and time again. Lucky Day, 2006, is a 16 mm …
Citizens and Subjects: Aernout Mik
…arious techniques of law enforcement. Through repetition, mimicry, inertia, re-enactment (including references to other …
Forensic Justice
…ondon-based independent and interdisciplinary research agency comprised of, among others, artists, scientists, lawyers, …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…s conceived as a PDF in order to be distributed from person to person. During the lecture, excerpts of historical Cuban …
Landscape
…ering new artificial topographies as the outcome of various developments in society, or examines how music, literature, …
Allegoric Postcard Union
Július Koller, Universal Futurological Question Mark (U.F.O.), 1978 On 13 August 1978 in Ličmany, Slovakia, Július …
Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality
…lso unsuitable for visitors who want to consume the exhibition quickly: there are fourteen hours of material to view on …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…n contemporary fascism in Berlin Quarterly 5 (Autumn 2016); 3. Golden Dawn Girls (Håvard Bustnes, 2017), a documentary …
New World Academy #4: The Art of Creating a State
… Association of Azawad). The work group coordinators are Remco van Bladel (graphic designer, Amsterdam), Rob Schröder (…
Instituting Otherwise
In 2016–2017, BAK dedicates a series of discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the insti…
Adrian Paci
…4) Paci shows a group of unemployed men who provide light in the dark streets by using generators. It is a metaphorical …
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
…2018 BAK Fellow Sepake Angiama. Titled We Summon Here All Beings Present, Past & Future, this space features books, …
Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things
…a. In the Middle of Things exhibition text Olga Chernysheva, In the Middle of Things by Cosmin Costinas Program …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…etary General, Council of Europe, France); Cristinela Ionescu (journalist and TV producer, Romania); Milutin Jovanovic (…
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
Curated by Cosmin Costinas, the exhibition Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere presents a number…
The Social Studio
…(2007) and Repetition (2005) that could be described as “social studios,” social experiments of sorts documented on …
Artists Beyond
…d about the relationship between love, idealism, and rebellion. Boulos has just returned from the Philippines, where he …
Conference European Youth Parliament: Towards a Sustainable Europe, Embracing Innovation
…voor de praktische organisatie, de academische begeleiding van de jongeren en voor creatieve projecten, zoals foto’s, …
Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things
Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) was one of the most seminal if controversial theater, film, and contemporary art f…
How Much Fascism?
…in, Graz, and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. Works Avi Mograbi The Details Avi Mograbi (born 1956) is an Israeli …
New World Summit, Rojava
…o (aid worker, the Netherlands), Constance Trinette van Dorp (aid worker, the Netherlands), Ruben Hamelink (documentary …
The Southern Summer School
In February 2017 BAK hosts The Southern Summer School, a project initiated by artists Dorine van Meel and Nelmarie du Pr…
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…Raunig (philosopher, Zurich); Simon Sheikh ** (curator, writer, and FORMER WEST editor, Berlin/London); **Hito Steyerl (…
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político
…re the power relations that dominate life can be imagined and embodied differently. A screening program of artists’ …
Micro-Resistances
In the interview, Arango shares about Grupo Semillas, an organization that has supported Indigenous and peasant communit…
Solidarity with Lumbung
…, occupation and human rights violations as antisemitic. Documenta15 is still open, the powerful Palestinian propaganda …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
In Search of Gilbert and Idrissa: African Students in the USSR
…nts in the USSR For her contribution to “ExitStateCraft,” artist Sandra Muteteri Hermans presents the script of a …
Afrofuturism
…ice by the science fiction authors Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany, the musicians George Clinton and Sun Ra, the …
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
…bilities, consciousness, and actions in relation to climate urgencies. Tolhildan appears as a speaker in Arsanios’s …
To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) Guidebook English
…ber–29 October 2023. This moving image forum is conceptualized by Olexii Kuchanskyi and Oleksiy Radynski and features …
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
STAND WITH UKRAINE: A MAKESHIFT READING LIST
While all texts radically oppose the war, there are also differences in the propositions they engage with as to how to e…
Oleksiy Radynski: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
… In the waves of devastation as war is waged on Ukraine, we republish the video statement made by Oleksiy Radynski (…
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…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
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 …
The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…tologist and cultural theorist, Heidelberg and Konstanz); Christina von Braun (cultural theorist, author, and …
Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor
…s artistic production to date, including extensive images of their work since 2000 covering a range of media including …
Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice
…); Fadi El Abdallah (poet and jurist, The Hague); Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (…
We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…bsp;Huub van Baar (researcher and writer, Amsterdam); Damian James Le Bas (writer, journalist, poet, and …
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy
… Party (PKK)), Pinar Öğünç (journalist), Jonas Staal (artist and writer), and Hito Steyerl (artist, documentary …
Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…ith contributions by: Nancy Adajania (cultural theorist and curator, Bombay); Ariella Azoulay(theorist, curator, and …
Nida Sinnokrot
Working across film, video, photography, sculpture, installation, and agriculture, Nida seeks to expose and cannibalize…
Philip Rizk
In his films, he experiments with methods of “making the habitual strange.” In Out on the Street (2015), he uses per…
Olga Bryukhovesta
…ate professor of cultural studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, where she teaches courses on …
Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist, and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the…
Tiffany Sia
Tiffany Sia Tiffany Sia, born in Hong Kong, is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. She is the founder of Speculative Place…
Chris Rawlence
Chris Rawlence Chris Rawlence is a director, writer, and producer of dozens of feature films, documentaries, and televis…
Mike Dibb
Mike Dibb Mike Dibb is an award-winning British independent filmmaker who has been producing and directing films for tel…
Jumana Manna
Jumana Manna Jumana Manna is a visual artist working primarily with film and sculpture. She graduated in aesthetics and …
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz are an artist duo with an emphasis on film and install…
Edward George
Edward George Edward George is a writer and researcher. Founder of Black Audio film Collective, George was a researcher,…
Black Audio film Collective
Black Audio film Collective Black Audio film Collective was a seven-person film collective inaugurated in the United Kin…
Larry Achiampong
With works that examine his communal and personal heritage—in particular, the intersection between pop culture and the…
