BAK on 'prospections'
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
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 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
The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on BAK’s online publishing forum prospections is a slow-growing reader that u…
Usufructuaries of earth
7 March–2 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earth is a project that inquires into the practice of ethically sharing the ea…
48-hour Selma
Presented as a part of prospections’s ongoing focus, Tactical Solidarities, Cokes’s work considers the effect that i…
Revolution after Revolution: The Commune as Line of Flight in Palestinian Anticolonialism
Originally published in Critical Times journal, this essay foregrounds the Palestinian people’s creativity within thei…
Improvement
The Amman reading group was convened by artist-led research group Bahaleen involving locally-invited artists and researc…
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…
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 …
