BAK on 'prospections'
Reading group Amman
May 2024 (precise dates and locations TBC) Convened by Aya Bseiso with Bahaleen collective, Amman More information t…
OPEN CALL: Reading groups
Usufructuaries of earth A project in three chapters convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Marw…
Chapter two, reading groups and online publication
The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on BAK’s online publishing forum prospections is a slow-growing reader that u…
Usufructuaries of earth
Convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Marwa Arsanios 7 March–2 June 2024 Convened by BAK,…
48-hour Selma
Presented as a part of prospections’s ongoing focus, Tactical Solidarities, Cokes’s work considers the effect that i…
Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader
The reader emerges, to begin with, as a constellation of archival texts assembled here through the “Usufructuaries of …
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
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
Digital Discomfort Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort…
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
“To Read the War” is an assemblage of texts, visual essays, interviews, conversations, and even entire publications …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
Maidan and (8 Years) After: State of the Ukrainian Left
Originally published in n+1 magazine 24, New Age (Winter 2016), which gives a socioeconomic context to the Maidan uprisi…
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…
Standing With Ukraine
Standing With the Oppressed”—an ongoing publication of material such as texts, documentation, and live online events…
NO TO WAR!!!
In these dark days, we stand in solidarity with the millions of residents of Ukraine whose lives are endangered and irre…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
Dysfluent Waters
“Dysfluent Waters” is a part of musician and writer JJJJJerome Ellis’s multi-faceted project The Clearing (book pu…
ExitStateCraft
The sharp knife of Macchiavelli’s thought had cut off all the threads by which in former generations the state was f…
In Proximity: Wendelien van Oldenborgh
For this first session of "In Proximity," an ongoing series featured on prospections, BAK’s Curator of Public Practice…
Live online event
Practicing Tactical Solidarities: A Roundtable on Mutual Aid, Emergency, and Continuous Care Part of BAK's digital forum…
In Proximity
"In Proximity" is an ongoing series featured on BAK's digital forum "prospections," in which artists discuss their pract…
prospections
prospections is BAK's digital forum for anticipatory and propositional discourse, research, and intervention, driven by …
