BAK on 'race'
Chapter three, convention
…), Maria Hlavajova (BAK general director, Amsterdam/Utrecht), Lama El Khatib (researcher and cultural worker, Berlin), G…
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
…sents the rich difference of bodies and experiences involved in justice mobilization, including factors such as gender, …
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
… care. Simultaneously, a neighborhood and a network of affections are articulated. This way, each product is a journey t…
Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution
…wo samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no t…
Ulises Friends School
…nectedness); and most importantly, make friends. Ongoing activities, with supplies provided, include making friendship b…
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis
…ommunity with dynamic, effective tools for self-governance? The training session draws from dynamic self-governance, g…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…in non-western contexts “repair” often involves embracing the scar as a natural part of healing, honoring thus the t…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
…ed police aggression where a young man of Congolese descent, Théo Luhaka, was assaulted by police officers following a …
Le Guess Who? at BAK
…o?: a festival dedicated to showcasing boundary-crossing music from all over the world, questioning the existing and emb…
Unevenly
…munities based on shared geography or ethical, economic, and political interests, the exhibition Unevenly intends to emb…
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…a circular platform, Constant’s model Design for a Gypsy Camp2 put forward a radical invitation to otherness and emb…
RIR in Public: On movement, thought and politics
… deals with the contemporary growth of prisons and their centrality to today’s economic restructuring and politics of …
Constructing Other Worlds
…xically) tightening and losing their grip at the same time, what is our art to do? How can we—with and through art—t…
The Southern Summer School
In February 2017 BAK hosts The Southern Summer School, a project initiated by artists Dorine van Meel and Nelmarie du Pr…
Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a
This separation is situated in a vast history of coloniality as capitalist development: violence, land grabbing, regulat…
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Secret Proof
Responding to the experiences of evidence production by Jemez Pueblo members in New Mexico, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik’s…
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
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…
Immortals: On the Ancient Future Lives of Stone and Plastic
As quasi-immortal materials, stone and plastic bear witness to the catastrophic effects of extractive linearity, while a…
Dearest Xen (Letters to Lichen)
Through the lenses of xenology (Knouf’s term for the study, analysis, and development of the strange, alien, and other…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
In Some Places the Not-Yet Has Long Been Already
These ancestral catastrophes, she writes, “keep arriving out of the ground that colonialism and racism tilled, rather …
Pig Eater
Weaving fantasies of abundance and the abolition of work; of feasting and resting; of sabotage, anachronism, and the fuc…
Reclaiming Time: On Blackness and Landscape
Drawing from his collection of poems Thinking with Trees, he outlines a colonial epistemology of nature and argues for p…
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
Living Without Approval
…om the perspective of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. The opening interview with Dirik, “Living Without Approval,” t…
To Live the Coming Death
…nd the Americas or Europe. And not only the dead ones: those who completed the crossing to be sold as slaves also left t…
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London are proud to announce the release of Towa…
New World Academy Reader #1: Towards a People’s Culture
… as (semi-)legal political parties and organizations with strong leftist and Maoist affinities. Its development can be t…
Layal Ftouni
…linary crossing fields of gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, political theory, visual studies and critical …
Stefano Harney
He is currently a Hayden Fellow at Yale School of Art, New Haven, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Gender, Rac…
Jason Allen-Paisant
…poetry and philosophy. His creative writing (poetry, memoir, and critical life writing) addresses issues of time, …
Hemali Bhuta
Hemali Bhuta Hemali Bhuta is an artist who creates site-responsive installations and sculptural interventions that embra…
Laura Grace Ford
Laura Grace Ford Laura Grace Ford is an artist and writer concerned with the politics and poetics of place.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Wilson writes about abolition, racial capitalism, organized violence, organized abandonment, changing state structure, t…
Grace Lostia
Grace Lostia Grace Lostia is an activist involved in community building through food and music. Lostia has a background …
Joram Kroon (Prace)
Joram Kroon (Prace) Joram Kroon (Prace) is a composer, music-producer, pianist, DJ, music teacher, and musical adventure…
Ramon Amaro
…on, Sylvia Wynter and Gilbert Simondon, Ramon aims to open up new methodological considerations at the intersections of …
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Her publications include the monograph Toward a Global Idea of race (2007), and the edited volume Law, race, and the …
Sven Augustijnen
…ations mirror historiography and show a fondness for storytelling. In his well-known film Spectres (2011), Augustijnen t…
Mariana Castillo Deball
…lude: Report (Not Announcement), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and e-flux (2006), Interlude: The Reader’s T…
Jeremiah Day
…s photography, speech, and body language to re-examine political conflicts and resistances, unfolding their subjective t…
Franco Berardi Bifo
…948) is a writer, media theorist, activist, and was a key figure in the Italian Autonomia movement of the 1970s that emb…
Marina Vishmidt
…titutions, and activist spaces and frequently works with artists, having collaborated with Ruth Buchanan, Chris Evans, G…
Black Lives Matter UK (BLMUK)
…ll Black lives, works in coordination with other anti-racist groups, is not affiliated with any political party, and emb…
Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker is a social and cultural anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Gender Studies at Utrecht University, Ut…
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
Stefano Harney is author with Fred Moten of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and&nbs…
Ashley Hunt
… deals with the contemporary growth of prisons and their centrality to today’s economic restructuring and politics of …
Brigitta Kuster
…ntext of the project Mig@Net, 2010–2013; Rester et partir Staying and Leaving, Musée de Bamako, Bamako, 2011; and T…
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy (born 1956) is a sociologist and writer. He is currently the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory in t…
In Proximity
"In Proximity" is an ongoing series featured on BAK's digital forum "Prospections," in which artists discuss their pract…
Symposium As for Protocols IV
Symposium As for Protocols: To Hold Things Together 20-21 May 2021. Curated by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht an…
Symposium As for Protocols II
Symposium As for Protocols: To Hold Things Together 20-21 May 2021. Curated by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht an…
