BAK on 'logic'
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
…med and politically driven base. Committed to art and political imagination, and driven by the urgency of social and eco…
Climate Propagandas Congregation
… place in a large-scale installation, best described as an “immersive diorama.” The diorama depicts biota of the geo…
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
…ecting the city and beyond, and exhibitions, seminars, and performances. We do this through research into social and eco…
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
Chapter three, convention
Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs Saturday 25 May 2024 12–22.00 hrs PRACTICAL INFORMATION The public progra…
Chapter one, exhibition
…s’s work in the Netherlands. The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together eco…
Usufructuaries of earth
…a livable life in common with the earth. It seeks to throw regimes of private property—and the financial and colonial …
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…a traditional soup found across Spanish post-colonial cuisines. It has has no universal recipe. Perhaps it is more cosmo…
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…s. Juan Pablo Pacheco Juan Pablo Pacheco (Bogotá, 1991) is an artist and writer driven by questions about the eco…
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis
…ree of many tiers in community building praxis. FGT is based on the values of equity with an emphasis on creating psycho…
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
…ncialization, and managerialism. These sessions aim to rethink the key questions around urgent social, economic, and eco…
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…different themes that deal with this “legacy” of colonial violence, from architecture as a form of social and psycho…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VII
…ver the last two decades—contribute to the ongoing struggles of decolonization both in and out of the viral and psycho…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering V: The Object’s Interlacing
…g the era of historical colonialisms. Considered from various contemporary perspectives—philosophical, legal, anthropo…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering IV: On Decolonial Aesthesis
…sk of healing, of justice, and of recovering relations with Earth, the communal, and time that have been severed by the …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering III: Utopianism, Anti-Utopianism, and the Radical Politics of Chronotopian Ungovernability
…rical conjuncture: economically there is likely an irreversible decline in growth and profits under late capitalism; eco…
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…different themes that deal with this “legacy” of colonial violence, from architecture as a form of social and psycho…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
…tity check in a Parisian banlieue in 2017.* Weaved through personal recollections, philosophical perspectives, and socio…
Repair & Listen
…epistemologies and lived experiences, the podcast investigates “repair” as a concrete practice to counter the psycho…
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
… shaped by demands for decolonization and the politics of restitution—offer to life in and out of the viral and psycho…
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…the symposium engages with the proposition of the art institution as a microcosm of a world centered on social and eco…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
… theorists, and writers in a range of formats, to actively reflect upon this current moment of ever-more polarizing ideo…
RIR in Public: Sopawan Boonnimitra
…obility and migration as well as the presence of the body of the ‘other,’ Boonnimitra explores the particular psycho…
Forensic Justice
… investigations. The exhibition Forensic Justice features a number of tactical forensic reclamations of social and eco…
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
… longer be sustainable; “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” As social, geopolitical, economic, and techno…
Allegoric Postcard Union
Július Koller, Universal Futurological Question Mark (U.F.O.), 1978 On 13 August 1978 in Ličmany, Slovakia, Július …
Undercurrents
… a competition and tension kept alive by an ongoing mutual anticipation of potential full-scale military assault by ideo…
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
… longer be sustainable; “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” As social, geopolitical, economic, and techno…
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
…es that grasp and influence our dramatically changing times. Social, environmental, geopolitical, economic, and techno…
Other Survivalisms
…ajectory deliberates upon survival through the notion of “afterlife,” which evokes a temporality different than the …
Human-Inhuman-Posthuman
…experiences. Under the pressure of new contemporary realities, however—global neoliberal capitalism, migration, techno…
Report (Not Announcement)
… contributors of the project respond to this lacuna in unconventional ways by reporting and reflecting on their own onto…
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
… art stand in these processes? The exhibition considers these questions along contemporary political, economic, techno…
2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress, On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination
…and political project. Since the 1989 (default) victory of capitalist democracy over the only functioning competing ideo…
How to Sort out the Many Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropocene
…roject at BAK, this gathering centers around the so-called Anthropocene thesis that identifies our present time as a geo…
Art and Labor After the End of Work
… the notion of post-work society, and its supposed domination by the service economy and creative industries, as an ideo…
Global Art Challenges 2016
…h to be ruled”. Within this context, it becomes paramount to reconsider and rearticulate foundational Western epistemo…
A Call for Drawings
…and scholars convened on this subject of the role of visual thinking in knowledge production. In scientific and techno…
Book Launch of Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
…oposition of the publication to “former” the west as a way of undoing westcentrism in the resilient economic, techno…
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…
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…
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
To Read the War
…es of media and military technologies—and goes against the grain of all that serves to enable and facilitate a binary …
75 years of dispossession. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade.
…at solidarity means, in a transversal sense, between how we can meaningfully engage with a practice of undoing colonial …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
Maidan and (8 Years) After: State of the Ukrainian Left
Originally published in n+1 magazine 24, New Age (Winter 2016), which gives a socioeconomic context to the Maidan uprisi…
STAND WITH UKRAINE: A MAKESHIFT READING LIST
…re also differences in the propositions they engage with as to how to emerge from this horror. Links are provided chrono…
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
… linearity, while also drastically exceeding human lifespans. The essay entangles these forms that oscillate between geo…
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…
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
…a full member of the people. Romanticism’s answer was to idealize an organic and ethnically homogenous Volk as the bio…
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
