BAK on 'rest'
Research in Residence
OPEN CALL: Volunteers
… You'll receive a volunteer allowance and become part of an international platform for art, research and education. Inte…
OPEN CALL: Reading groups
…e for the Berlin and Rotterdam reading groups. The reading group in Amman involves invited participants. If you are inte…
Le Guess Who? 2023 at BAK
…ian Brimmers, artists Ale Hop (Peru), Rana Ghose (India) and Nyokabi Kariũki (Kenya) will, together with Dan Hassler-Fo…
AAAAA An Amazing Arboretum As Actual Art
bak Young Fellows, 2023 presents: AAAAA An Amazing Arboretum As Actual Art Dark forests tend to scare us. Not kn…
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
…k-meal) will be served at 16 hrs. As much as possible, meal ingredients are harvested from the generous dumpsters and …
Usufructuaries of earth
… a way of undoing property from the regimes of privatization that perpetually usurp the earth’s resources for the inte…
Mental Health Symposium: Communal Care & Healing
…self-reliance and mental well-being. For whom? This symposium is an open event and accessible to anyone who is inte…
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…ld go to my grandfather’s farm, located in a small corner of the Colombian Caribbean: Sahagún, Córdoba. The days of …
ULTRACIRCULATORY RADIO STREAM: Critical Circulation Mi
…pment, an on air sign hanging in the left right corner, in the lower left corner the Chinese character for a place like …
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…ural platform for diasporic affects and practice exchanges around the kitchen as a site of study. A place for those inte…
Violencia Fantasia with Deseo Real and Carla Arcos
An LGBTQIA+ flag flies flamboyantly on top of the Volksbank building; a crowd of flamingos rest by an urban pond, having…
Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution
…Marasigan, artist and priest Jason Dy, SJ, curator and death companion Staci Bu Shea, and curator Renan Laru-an are inte…
Belonging: Thou shalt not worship at the altar of access
…s, and collectivity 16:15 Optional use of collective spacetime: Practicing story, story stewardship, sitting with it, …
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall
…he slogan Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom). Panelists Nisrine Chaer is a researcher and organiser whose inte…
If Another Storm Comes, We Will Be Ready (Sint Maarten Parade)
…of one is required to take part in the performance. This event is open to the public and free to attend. If you are inte…
HKU Graduation Project 2023: Refractions
…he Arts Utrecht brings together artists from different contexts and backgrounds working across a range of media and inte…
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…hat pathways can repair offer—not as a return to past ways, but an itinerary shaped by demands for decolonization and …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering V: The Object’s Interlacing
…dam). In his film The Object’s Interlacing (2020), Kader Attia interviews different practitioners on the subject of …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering IV: On Decolonial Aesthesis
…s well accepted that it is necessary to decolonize epistemologies, the question of decolonizing aesthetics has been unde…
48-hour Selma
Presented as a part of Prospections’s ongoing focus, Tactical Solidarities, Cokes’s work considers the effect that i…
Time for a Break(down): Reimagining Social Flows in the Not-Yet
…eorge Bajalia is Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His research and artistic inte…
Le Guess Who? at BAK
…leries and warehouses. Satellite events with music, film, visual art, photography and markets appear at cafés, hotels, …
Unrestricted Sociality
— BAK is pleased to invite you to Unrestricted Sociality, a dance party and performative intervention with artist, pe…
Cordially Invited, episode 3
…on, understood here as a symbolic tool which can be used to negotiate between two imaginary, unattainable ideals: the un…
Citizens and Subjects: Aernout Mik
…ation, Training Ground, a fictional training is shown, in which policemen learn and rehearse tactics for handling the ar…
Propositions #7/5: Sense
…, 2016, an investigation into the 2015 fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra that consumed over 21,000 square kilometers of fo…
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…tribute an element of their activities on 30 June 2018 to her installation. These contributions remain in place for the …
Landscape
Although Denisa Lehocká and Boris Ondreička each have their own independent, distinct artistic practice, their interes…
Test Department #1
…dge production in the context of an art institution developed by BAK. Central to the exhibition are the notions of “…
Other Survivalisms
…nstitution of art and culture, which has lost its emancipatory potential at the present moment as state and private inte…
Human-Inhuman-Posthuman
…-Inhuman-Posthuman Summer School Exhibitions 07.02.–26.04.2015 Anthropocene Observatory 04.09.–29.11.2015 Fo…
Report (Not Announcement)
…r fields has become much more efficient and faster than was previously imagined. Consequently artists and intellectuals …
Unevenly
…art” positions itself in the context of communities based on shared geography or ethical, economic, and political inte…
Processing “Knowledge Production” in Art
…ought and sold. Is it possible to reformulate the term “production” (a central imperative of the global market) to w…
Artists as (Public) Intellectuals
…y from the formal or aesthetic qualities of art. Is the function of an intellectual one that artists are willing or inte…
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
… in the Roma Pavilion are meant to function as propositions, both poetic and political, for how one could envision the …
RIR in Public: On movement, thought and politics
…ance journal project itch. Her work is inspired by various discourses on the body as an expressive tool, and she is inte…
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
Curated by Cosmin Costinas, the exhibition Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere presents a number…
1st FORMER WEST Congress
…l, London), Sven Lütticken (art critic, Utrecht), Nuria Enguita-Mayo (curator, Valencia), Mihnea Mircan (curator, Bucha…
Constructing Other Worlds
BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Bucharest on 30 October 2014 as a part of the Evening classes seri…
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
…ing the ideal of cosmopolitanism as an active and critical strategy that sets itself against the grain of national(ist) …
Un(fore)seen Cultures: Mapping the Urban Contemporary in Hong Kong and the Netherlands
…rsity), the afternoon presents a series of projects that aim to explore urban life in the 21st century. With a keen inte…
Thinking Out Loud: Practices of Art in the Era of the Disenchanted
…emporary curatorial and artistic practices that have critically addressed themselves to the processes of socio-economic …
Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
…emporary curatorial and artistic practices that have critically addressed themselves to the processes of socio-economic …
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…
Micro-Resistances
… community-owned forms of production. Arango speaks of Tolima in Colombia which must resist the extractive economic inte…
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
75 years of dispossession. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade.
… worth. On 19 October 2023 during the Utrecht demonstration in support of Palestine, we open BAK as a quiet space for …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
…alization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practices of relational care and survival that …
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…
