BAK on 'praxis'
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
INTRODUCTION (Genealogy) Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity is a one-day symposium that draws inspirati…
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
Building belongings with what we have. With the skills we put at the table. Doing what we like doing together. …
Talent Takes a Seat
Featuring music, dance, spoken word, a pop-up market, a flash exhibition, and an intergenerational panel of black cultur…
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
It feels harder than ever to imagine a future that is both collectively desirable and achievable. Mainstream politics ha…
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building praxis
…Rajan Vishnu would like to share feminist governance tools (FGT) focused on three of many tiers in community building …
FULL PROGRAM: UPS
Schedule 00. OPENING Saturday, 01 April 2023, 14:00–22:00 hrs RRRadiossage Reading Rhythms Club Free entr…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering III: Utopianism, Anti-Utopianism, and the Radical Politics of Chronotopian Ungovernability
…nded by capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy? Ochieng’s “chronotopian ungovernability” offers a reparative …
Artists Beyond
On Tuesday 27 April, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst hosts an artist talk with Mark Boulos. The talk takes place within th…
Solidarity with Lumbung
. . . the charge of “antisemitism” was the fruitless attempt to discipline and lecture ruangrupa and the participati…
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
Field Meal Network
Throughout 2024, the Community Portal organizes a series of mutual fieldwork visits between cultural kitchen workers in …
Zoénie Liwen Deng
…ites semi-ekphrastic poems and art-related essays, and organizes events around social practices. She works as the civic …
Yasmin Ahmed
Her political work is based in anti-imperialist solidarity and collective praxis, particularly with the liberation strug…
David Muñoz Alcántara
His recent work looks at militant poetics and radical critique through arts grounded in liberation struggles against cla…
Clara Balaguer
From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Phili…
Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto (Campus in Camps) with Pelin Tan
…n we share and explore meanings and understandings of the current lived realities of “hospitality”? How can radical …
