BAK on 'postcolonial'
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…96), a landmark play by Felix de Rooy that examines Caribbean queer and trans experiences against the backdrop of Dutch …
Academia in the Face of Genocide
In this talk, Neve Gordon will discuss the response of academic institutions to the genocidal violence perpetrated in th…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The postcolonial Body (online)
…ist, Lisbon). The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The postcolonial Body tackles police violence and racial body politics in …
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings
The gatherings take place on a fortnightly basis (at BAK and on bakonline.org) between 2 May–26 September 2021. Confir…
Who is a “People?” Constructions of the “We”
… nation-state within global flows of capital and how can “former West” itself be understood as a concept within the …
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…
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…
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
…f the geopolitical (dis)ordering of the North and the South, and seeks to collude the post-communist condition with the …
SB Arch Lab
…dent curator. She works under SBArchLab, of which she is the co-founder, and specializes in exhibition practices around …
Joud Al-Tamimi
She worked at Darat al Funun from 2019 to 2021, where she directed The Lab program and curated the trilogy Internet of T…
Jason Allen-Paisant
Allen-Paisant graduated from the University of Oxford, Oxford in 2015, and joined the University of Leeds in 2016 as a L…
Larry Achiampong
…ith works that examine his communal and personal heritage—in particular, the intersection between pop culture and the …
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock
…ontemporary, Berlin, where she is part of the participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours. She received her MA in …
Wan Ing Que
… these from a range of topics, including the commons and commoning practices, food autonomy, and cycles of colonial and …
Jessica de Abreu
… research project on organizational anthropology focused on social entrepreneurship in Black British communities from a …
Athena Athanasiou
Athena Athanasiou teaches at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Pantheion University of Social and Political S…
Nancy Jouwe
…t, culture, and heritage. As a researcher, curator, and project manager she focuses on cultural and social movements in …
Bernadette Buckley
Bernadette Buckley is a writer and academic whose research explores the relationship between art and politics, art and c…
Ethel Brooks
…n 1967) is a writer and researcher whose work explores critical political economy, globalization, social movements, and …
Homi K. Bhabha
…resident and Provost at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He is a cultural and literary theorist whose work centers on …
Alex Supartono
…been untouched by either scholarly or artistic eyes. Supartono is engaged in observing and charting those images from a …
Marion von Osten
… of exhibitions, installations, video, and text productions. Her main research interests concern cultural production in …
Sandro Mezzadra
… work in the last decade has centered on the relations between globalization, migration, and citizenship, as well as on …
Brigitta Kuster
…itta Kuster (born 1970) is an artist, cultural researcher, and writer, primarily interested in visual and film studies, …
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy (born 1956) is a sociologist and writer. He is currently the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory in t…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II
On Sunday 2 May 2021, the second gathering of "Fragments of Repair/Gatherings" took place as a live broadcast.