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Climate Propagandas Congregation
…ngful collective survival in—and in spite of—the present extinction wars. The congregation brings together research …
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
…s that provide both respite and a place from which to act. The work ahead to confront democracy’s failures can be …
Chapter one, exhibition
… with the film installations are works of various media—tapestries, prints, drawings, archival material, and landfill …
Usufructuaries of earth
… with the film installations are works of various media—tapestries, prints, drawings, archival material, and landfill …
Ulises Friends School
Ulises Friends School by Ulises In simplest terms, Ulises is a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ book…
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
…t-driven conversations on the pressure points between the experimental politico-qualitative theoretical and pedagogical …
Experimental Curating in the Age of Mobility
…h social and political issues. Examples of such curatorial practice are considered, with particular focus on discursive …
MaHKU Platform: Conversation with Jeanne van Heeswijk
…ijklab Slotervaart, and Dwaallicht as a starting point, Jeanne van Heeswijk examines the question of producing artistic …
Landscape
… Lehocká’s thoughts and feelings, but also their relative positions, elevations, and relationships. And although the …
Test Department #1
…rough exploration and experiment. In the framework of graduate art education, we have collaboratively tested a possible …
Other Survivalisms
…laborative research program FORMER WEST (2008–2016). These small-scale gatherings take the editorial meeting as their …
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
… of the musical, the educational cartoon, the effigy (protest puppetry), and the “People’s Trial” as a theatrical …
New World Academy #2: Collective Struggle of Refugees. Lost. In Between. Together.
…mp; Olive Martin), and Immigrant Movement International (Tania Bruguera), the participants deliberate on an alternative …
New World Academy #4: The Art of Creating a State
…pants are challenged to explore the relation between art and political representation, and to develop proposals for new …
New World Academy #5: Stateless Democracy
… been forming in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) amidst the Syrian Civil War. The resistance has successfully implemented new …
Future Collections
…lizing their respective resources of space, time, competencies, knowledges, finances, and other in order to establish a …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…ynamic motion.” Envisioned as an open system of mobile walls and spiraling wires on a circular platform, Constant’s …
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
… positions by international artists from different generations that reflect upon alternative visions for the future and …
Once is Nothing
…ber at 11.00 hrs at the Post Sorting Center, Avenue Fonsnylaan 48, 1060 Brussels. In an attempt to reorient the tired …
Curating (Beyond) Exhibitions: Critical Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Society
…ocial and political issues—in particular feminism and gender issues—are considered. Attention is paid to discursive …
How Much Fascism?
…nded by Bjornstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen. They describe their projects as tools. A tool is a …
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
…at bind and confine us in their demand to be conserved and resisted. In recognition of the need to think far beyond the …
New World Summit, Rojava
…ve deliberations focus on discussing the struggle, history, and outcomes of the Rojava Revolution and in particular its …
New World Academy Exhibition
…sion is organized with the Kurdish Women’s Movement: participants discussed the organization’s proposition of a new …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…has brought about new forms of class (re)composition at this scale, what might be corresponding forms of organizing and …
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 …
Secret Proof
Responding to the experiences of evidence production by Jemez Pueblo members in New Mexico, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik’s…
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
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 …
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…
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London are proud to announce the release of Towa…
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Propositions for Non-Fascist Livi…
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy
…ery concept of the nation-state itself. Within this process the Kurdish revolutionary movement developed an alternative …
Sakiya
…d training workshops, exploring the intersections between art, science, and agriculture in a sustainable and replicable …
Simone Fattal
Simone Fattal Simone Fattal is an artist who makes abstract and figurative ceramic sculptures, paintings, and collages. …
To Be Determined
…igrated to the Netherlands from the Philippines and other places, assuming a new name and identity. It is curious about …
Samantha Jones
…s is an artist, research scholar, and social entrepreneur. She works within the field of operations to create alternate …
Extinction Rebellion Utrecht
… Utrecht Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience as a resistance …
Irene Calabuch Mirón
… background in art history and political geography, she is interested in collective learning processes, radical housing …
Carmen Papalia
…c space, the art institution, and visual culture. Papalia’s walks, workshops, and interventions are an opportunity to …
Adelita Husni-Bey
…broadcasts, archives, and exhibition work focused on understanding and using collective and non-competitive pedagogical …
Whitney Stark
… who works with alternative pedagogies and organizational practices, theory, and the space of art to embellish relevant …
Tom Vandeputte
… Amsterdam and worked as a visiting lecturer at King’s College, London, where he taught a course on new institutional …
Barcelona en Comú
…ts political agenda advocates social justice and community rights, promotes participatory democracy, and develops a new …
Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer is an editor, writer, and curator based in Vienna. He is founding editor of Springerin and the head …
SUPERFLEX
…ded by Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen. They describe their projects as tools. A tool is a …
Marion von Osten
Marion von Osten (born 1963) is an artist and cultural researcher. She works with curatorial, artistic, and theoretical…
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 …
Tom McDonough
…century romantics to the bohemians of the early twentieth century. As McDonough explains in this lecture, the visionary …
Brain Holmes, Isabell Lorey, Simon Sheikh
Live Your models: Self-Orientation and Urban Form in the Next ''Spirit of Capitalism'' - Keynote with Brain Holmes, Isab…
No Linear Fucking Time I
On 3 December 2021 "No Linear Fucking Time," an exhibition with gatherings, an online publication, and a symposium, open…
No Linear Fucking Time
On 3 December 2021 "No Linear Fucking Time," an exhibition with gatherings, an online publication, and a symposium, open…
