BAK on 'otherwise'
Spectral Infrastructure
Future Vocabularies
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
…ng dedicated nearly half of my life to the remarkable itinerary undertaken by BAK—something I have dubbed instituting …
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…etooling the ways in which the cultural institution, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, meets communities, collectives, and …
Open Kitchen Weekender
… documented road trips to a variety of anarchist, autonomous, institutional, para-institutional, anti-institutional and …
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
…ble what has been silenced, disrupt our ‘common sense,’ traverse conflicting imaginaries, offer glimpses of a world …
Convention: public program
…et for both days costs €10. BAK offers without-cost solidarity tickets to enable the participation of those who would …
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
…et for both days costs €10. BAK offers without-cost solidarity tickets to enable the participation of those who would …
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
…harvested from the generous dumpsters and restaurant waste disposal cycles of Utrecht, recycling viable food that would …
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
…y Note BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES TO CONNECT TO THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE ROOMS All days are open to the public unless …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VII
Tickets available for both in person attendance at BAK, Utrecht and for online livestreaming. A ticket for the gathering…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…and the invisible, the living and the dead, to produce uncanny and unexpected angles from which to feel, think, and see …
Bikewars: FreeShop/Workshop
…ganize many social initiatives such as a “Free Shop” and a weekly vegan kitchen, cooking with vegetables that would …
Closing dinner with Bakudapan Food Study Group
…so please reserve a spot via mail julia@bakonline.org Free places: BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Time for a Break(down): Reimagining Social Flows in the Not-Yet
…er by the Basic Activist Kitchen. Free places: For each training, BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Urban Practices and the Future of the City
…ntbrite): €7,50 regular/€5 student discount Solidarity tickets: BAK provides solidarity tickets for those who would …
Lecture: David Harvey on Urban Front
…tbrite): €10 regular/€7,50 student discount Solidarity tickets: BAK provides solidarity tickets for those who would …
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
…About Taste Before You Waste Around 2013/2012 a group of international students started with picking up food that would …
Performance: Black Quantum Futurism
…bers – reserve your spot here Solidarity spots: For this program BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
…ging in storytelling, dialogue and spiritual healing as a training for collective resistance and a commitment to living …
Propositions #10: Instituting otherwise
…nd mutual care, as well as the fallacy of institutional politico-ideological neutrality. The notion of “instituting …
Propositions #9/5: Public Program
…student discount Free places: For each training and public program, BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
… joins forces with other organizations in addressing shared urgencies and developing propositions for “being together …
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
…positions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing), which seeks to collectively think and act out ways of being together …
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…how to think about the contemporary with and through art in order to build space for envisioning ways of being together …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…excluding administration fee). BAK offers without-cost solidarity passes to enable the participation of those who would …
Test Department #1
…rcurrent of striving to attain a goal; a specific quality of tension impinging upon the creative processes, which would …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…your place through Eventbrite. BAK offers without-cost solidarity passes to enable the participation of those who would …
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…how to think about the contemporary with and through art in order to build space for envisioning ways of being together …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the otherwise
…e public—are transforming. This course begins from the understanding that art has the radical potential to enable the …
Other Survivalisms
…ch in the Gramscian sense of a period in which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”), how do we survive “…
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
…a), Lisa Ito, Jose Maria Sison, and Mao Tse-tung (former Chairman of the Communist Party, Beijing). Program *unless …
New World Academy #2: Collective Struggle of Refugees. Lost. In Between. Together.
…Ögüt (artist, Amsterdam, Istanbul, and London), Martijn Stronk (theorist, Amsterdam), and Thomas. Program *unless …
New World Academy #3: Leaderless Politics
…cisco), design studio Metahaven (Vinca Kruk & Daniel van der Velden, Amsterdam), and Dirk Poot. Program *unless …
Instituting otherwise
…l, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…newed urgency. It brings an essential question to mind: if the space of art is indeed where the world could be imagined …
Call the Witness
…peculates about another possibility, and from within the Roma subjectivity proposes that we imagine how things could be …
AICA Award
…tatement on the website. BAK wants to ‘create a mental space for examining the potential of art to conceive the world …
The Social Studio
… social and political reality around us. In this way, art can contribute to shaping that reality by imagining the world …
Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things
…to an experimental immediacy, calling on the viewer to assume responsibility for the state of the world and to think it …
How Much Fascism?
…n Berlin. Milica Tomic One day, instead of one night, a burst of machine-gun fire will flash, if light cannot come …
Learning Place: Screening and Discussion
…ameters of advanced capitalism, thus leaving seemingly little to no space for artistic work that attempts to imagine it …
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
… once embedded and excluded, have the power to both resist the known and propose new imaginaries of how things could be …
FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin
…, but a set of propositions; no script, but an invitation to imagine a “what if” scenario—and, with it, the world …
Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future
…tage to collectively consider what it means to radically transform the current state of democracy—or how to institute …
Global Art Challenges 2016
In the context of the International Conference Challenges of Global Art: Towards an “Ecology of Knowledges” on 28 an…
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
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
…lp us to imagine and organize a world in which livable life in common is not only desired but made possible—the world …
Collective Dictionary: Political
…o conceive of “future vocabularies” in times like ours; of how to think and practice a lexicon of “being together …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
