BAK on 'history'
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…ider how Caribbean performative practices serve as aesthetic expressions and political acts—they engage with colonial …
Climate Propagandas Congregation
…he Catholic faith facing the rise of Protestantism in Europe. This constituted the first known propaganda department in …
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
… to confront democracy’s failures can be modeled hyper-locally, within cultural infrastructures. Among these, BAK’s …
Pride at BAK: Queer Film Program
The queer film program covers a variety of topics: gender history, exceptional stories of queer individuals, a proposal …
The Indonesian Dialogues
…etherlands, Switzerland, and Indonesia address questions around colonialism, and cultural and personal biases: How does …
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…
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…, social relations, and stories. You could say that from a sancocho it is possible to reconstruct not only the cultural …
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…—the neighborhood of De Voorkamer, the space where we will be hosted on the second day of the garage school—and its …
Publifluor: Resharpening Blobby
…ill offer Crickx care to nightshop owners in the neighbourhood, composing messages together on the spot. To open up the …
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
…herlands. Alejandra Ortiz is a writer, researcher, and grassroots activist, who is also a Mexican trans woman with a …
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
Join the propositions online via zoom through this link Andrea Philips: Monday 21 August, 13,30-14,30 CEST Mick Wils…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…alth of expertise and competence in fields ranging from psychiatry to ethnography, storytelling, shamanism, philosophy, …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering III: Utopianism, Anti-Utopianism, and the Radical Politics of Chronotopian Ungovernability
…chronotopian ungovernability” offers a reparative praxis of coming to terms with the actually existing constraints of …
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
Injury, wound, and repair have been key concepts across Attia’s artistic practice, particularly in relation to the mat…
Repair & Listen
…tween the artist and Utrecht or internationally-based academics, students, or activists from fields such as philosophy, …
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…
Bikewars: FreeShop/Workshop
…trecht-based activists, artists, and researchers with backgrounds in theatre, art, squatting, organizing, anthropology, …
KSU X Basic Activist Kitchen: Rojava – Kurdish autonomous region
…ill be food to share during the event, as part of the Basic Activist Kitchen. Speakers: – Renée In der Maur: Short …
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
…trecht-based activists, artists, and researchers with backgrounds in theatre, art, squatting, organizing, anthropology, …
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
…a Kaersenhout with Chicago-based pianist, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid. Both women tap into the meaning and …
Unforgetting
…ery and other so-called “difficult knowledge” by building (or peeling back) layers of context in the explication of …
Propositions #7/6: Archive
… the northern threshold of the Negev/Naqab desert. Jessica de Abreu presents The Black Archives’ work documenting the …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
… First Light A Story to Tell Otobong Nkanga Lecture-performance, auditorium Otobong Nkanga delves into fragments of …
Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality
…We observe the law of forgetting, one of the cornerstones of social life, together with the law of memory—the law of …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…itings of poet F. T. Marinetti and works of painter Umberto Boccioni, forms the core of Futurism’s reconfiguration of …
Other Survivalisms
…that has long monopolized our historical imagination, be they concepts of the post-political, the post-utopian, or post-…
New World Academy #4: The Art of Creating a State
… of France, with approximately 1.3 million inhabitants, yet it is not recognized by any other country in the world. The …
Adrian Paci
…ve taken place in the country since the fall of communism in 1991, when it became a democracy for the first time in its …
Inter-discipline or Non-discipline?
…x “inter” implies for the relationship of art with other domains of knowledge or disciplines (such as architecture, …
Unclaimed Knowledge
…, stories, alternative visions, or events that are not privileged in the dominant discourses of politics, economics, or …
After history: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer
The exhibition unveils for the first time to the public the unique visual work of Russian-born French philosopher and di…
Why Biennial?
…es the urgent need to reevaluate how we think about the biennial. Instead of merely positioning the biennial within the …
ON MEDIATION/2: Theory and Curatorial Practices in the Global Art
BAK’s artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Barcelona on 10 December 2014, as a part of the second On Medi…
New World Summit, Rojava
…d the New World Summit. During the 5th New World Summit, the collective deliberations focus on discussing the struggle, …
There is a Crack in the Museum of history. Is That How the Future Gets in?
…signed as the last progressive movement in what political scientist Francis Fukuyama once described as “the museum of …
Who is a “People?” Constructions of the “We”
…questions, the meeting asks: How is a “people” constructed and addressed within culture, the commons, politics, and …
Tentoonbazen
From 15 April 2016, BAK hosts a temporary exhibition, entirely developed by fourth-year pupils from the pre-university O…
Strijd: Art, Activism and the University
On 18 May 2016, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht hosts an evening initiated by the curatorial team of Strijd inf…
Lines of Thought
In the summer of 2015, BAK, together with artist, researcher, and lecturer Klaas Hoek, hosts a presentation of some of t…
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…
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
…k of Jineology—a feminist ideology around radical coexistence with nature. Straddling the line between a prophecy and …
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…
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporal…
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…
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…
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
…spective of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. The opening interview with Dirik, “Living Without Approval,” traces the …
ExitStateCraft
The sharp knife of Macchiavelli’s thought had cut off all the threads by which in former generations the state was f…
To Live the Coming Death
…stine integer. This imaginary belongs to those who, in their confident arithmetic, would hope to fathom the open rip in …
Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor
…der Vatamanu and Tudor’s work from diverse perspectives, all of which are grounded in certain modes of thinking about …
