BAK on 'propositions'
propositions for Non-Fascist Living
(Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling
…, questioning the societal expectations imposed on women in these geographically divergent settings. Throughout these …
Convention: public program
Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs Saturday 25 May 2024 12–22.00 hrs PRACTICAL INFORMATION The public progra…
OPEN CALL: Reading groups
…ay 2024 at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, and which is organized to unpack and to learn together histories and …
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 two, reading groups and online publication
…Berlin, and Rotterdam. These reading groups are held in the lead-up to the convention to learn together histories and …
Usufructuaries of earth
7 March–2 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earth is a project that inquires into the practice of ethically sharing the ea…
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
Join the propositions online via zoom through this link Andrea Philips: Monday 21 August, 13,30-14,30 CEST Mick Wils…
Repair & Listen
Throughout the duration of the project Fragments of Repair, Kader Attia engages in creating a new work in the form of a …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering I: Online Opening Program
On Saturday 17 April 2021 BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht is proud to present the online opening program of Fragm…
propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
See the day schedule below, and the full program here (PDF). propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day …
propositions #9/5: Public Program
This last day of the week of propositions #9 Deserting from the Culture Wars consists of a public program including a pa…
Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
…ies BAK, basis voor… in which BAK joins forces with other organizations in addressing shared urgencies and developing …
propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
Trainings, lectures, and panel discussions with Bini Adamczak; Kader Attia; Tom Holert; Sven Lütticken; Diana McCarty; …
propositions #7/6: Archive
With Ariel Caine (Forensic Architecture, London), Jessica de Abreu (The Black Archives, Amsterdam), and Yasmine Eid-Sabb…
propositions #7/5: Sense
With Samaneh Moafi (Forensic Architecture, London) and Hilde Brontsema (Milieudefensie, Amsterdam) Satellite images ha…
Course Art and Politics
“Art and Politics” is an inaugural course of a new public school for art and politics organized by BAK, basis voor a…
Forensic Justice
From October 18, 2018 till January 27, 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht presents Forensic Justice, an exhi…
Course Art and Politics
“Art and Politics” is an inaugural course of a new public school for art and politics organized by BAK, basis voor a…
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
… present and speculate about global futures; and Future Vocabularies (2013–2016), which attempted to act out concrete …
propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary marks the culmination of a vibrant and inspiring 2017/20…
propositions #2: Assemblism
propositions #2: Assemblism is a day-long gathering that addresses the current rise of the new authoritarian world ord…
propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right is part of BAK’s long-term artistic research series and conven…
propositions #1: What We Mean
propositions #1: What We Mean begins from an urgency for—and uncertainty about—what living in non-fascist ways could…
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…r in order to reevaluate the global present and speculate about global futures. The latter attempts to act out concrete …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
… present and speculate about global futures; and Future Vocabularies (2013–2016), which attempted to act out concrete …
Survival
…ure. Brought together under the common denominator of (rethinking) survival, the project attempts to act out concrete …
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
The group exhibition First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger inquires into the emotional infrastructure…
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…ation of others on display, the “proceedings” and “deliberations” in the Roma Pavilion are meant to function as …
3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art
… appear from Contemporary Art’s “formerness?” Part One of the 3rd FORMER WEST Congress puts forward a number of …
Constructing Other Worlds
…9 in order to reevaluate the global present and speculate about global futures, the latter attempts to act out concrete …
FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin
…lin. Neither an exhibition nor a conference, it entails no order, but rhythms and accidents; no certainty, but a set of …
Faust 3
BAK, Utrecht and Frascati, Amsterdam bring Bread and Puppet Theater—one of the United States’ most celebrated social…
New World Academy Exhibition
…t and Centraal Museum, Utrecht present the exhibition New World Academy, which brings together artworks, documents, and …
Book Launch of Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
…tings has been held, including at Goldsmiths, University of London, London in 2015, in which themes, contributions, and …
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político
At BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht we are proud to announce Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político, the first …
Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader
…entions—will incrementally be (re)published into a public research and learning curriculum that studies histories and …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
Digital Discomfort
Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD)—composed …
Scarecrows
“Scarecrows” is a visual essay by artist Jumana Manna. Here, Manna images daily acts of defiance by Palestinians for…
To Read the War
“To Read the War” is an assemblage of texts, visual essays, interviews, conversations, and even entire publications …
STAND WITH UKRAINE: A MAKESHIFT READING LIST
While all texts radically oppose the war, there are also differences in the propositions they engage with as to how to e…
Oleksiy Radynski: propositions for Non-Fascist Living
The responses are 1–5 minute video statements recorded with technology at hand: mobile phones, voice recorders, Skype.…
ExitStateCraft
The sharp knife of Macchiavelli’s thought had cut off all the threads by which in former generations the state was f…
Solidarity with La Colonie
Together with artists, researchers, activists, local residents, and various publics La Colonie seeks to decolonize the c…
To Live the Coming Death
…ve the coming death. What, then, are the ways in which this coming death may be lived otherwise, may be resisted? Two …
Third Assembly
Bridging the tactics, goals, and challenges of autonomous and activist movements in Northern and Western Kurdistan, Cata…
Deserting from the Culture Wars
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Deserting from the Culture Wars, …
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…
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…utions to this reader comprise a series of critical inquires, thought experiments, documents of practice, and tentative …
Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
…mble a vocabulary relevant to artistic practices and civic conclaves mobilized outside the ossified institutions: among …
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
…(2013), Utrecht (2014), London (2015), Budapest (2015), and Warsaw (2015), in which proposed themes, contributions, and …
Whitney Stark
Whitney Stark is a theorist and facilitator who works with alternative pedagogies and organizational practices, theory, …
