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Le Guess Who? 2023 at BAK
… Music Futurisms The term Afro-Futurism has slowly become part of a mainstream cultural vocabulary. A combination of …
Usufructuaries of earth
Convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Marwa Arsanios 7 March–2 June 2024 Convened by BAK,…
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
…rtist and Utrecht or internationally-based academics, students, or activists from fields such as philosophy, history of …
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…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
Trainings, lectures, and panel discussions with Bini Adamczak; Kader Attia; Tom Holert; Sven Lütticken; Diana McCarty; …
Forensic Justice
From October 18, 2018 till January 27, 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht presents Forensic Justice, an exhi…
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…
What Is the City but the People?
Please join friends, families, neighbors, and fellow city dwellers for this live parade of life on the Jaarbeursplein in…
Test Department #1
…ty. The conceptual meaning of this primary form of visualization for the domain of art—as well as for domains such as …
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…
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
The group exhibition First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger inquires into the emotional infrastructure…
Inter-discipline or Non-discipline?
…r” implies for the relationship of art with other domains of knowledge or disciplines (such as architecture, history, …
How to Sort out the Many Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropocene
…et unstable concept of the Anthropocene as one informed by the disciplines of geology, philosophy, theology, and social …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
Art and Labor after the End of Work—a collaborative project by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht; the Museum of…
There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?
There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in? is a public editorial meeting and conference …
Lines of Thought
…e Art at UCL) – Introduction Arthur Miller (Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of science at UCL) – Art, …
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político
At BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht we are proud to announce Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político, the first …
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…
Afrofuturism
…earcher, and academic Ramon Amaro draws from multiple conceptions and realizations of Afrofuturism—in practice by the …
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
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…
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporal…
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…
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
Living Without Approval
…gue with Dilar Dirik, explores the foundations of the practice of stateless democracy in terms of politics, governance, …
ExitStateCraft
…ganic whole of human existence.” 2 Cassirer stresses that “what Macchiavelli wished to introduce was not only a new …
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
To Live the Coming Death
This text was published some months before the Covid-19 pandemic began to produce a massive death toll, which has contri…
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 #5: Stateless Democracy
New World Academy is an alternative learning platform for art and politics established by artist Jonas Staal and BAK.…
Jineolojî Center Brussels
…the Middle East and Europe. Today, hundreds of women from different cultures and backgrounds are united around this new …
Sahar Qawasmi
Sahar is a co-founder of Sakiya – Art | science | Agriculture, an international residency program and research platfor…
Nida Sinnokrot
Working across film, video, photography, sculpture, installation, and agriculture, Nida seeks to expose and cannibalize…
Sakiya
…ction, exhibitions, symposia, publications, education, and training workshops, exploring the intersections between art, …
Lucí Cavallero
She has a PhD in social science, is a researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, and member of the fem…
Verónica Gago
…part of the Ni Una Menos movement (Not One More!), as both a theoretician and an activist. She is a professor of social …
Adriana Knouf
… drone flight, queer and trans futurities, machine learning, the voice, and papermaking. She has a PhD in information …
Mike Dibb
…ecting films for television for many years on a wide range of subjects, from cinema and jazz to art, sport, literature, …
Edward George
…searcher. Founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George was a researcher, presenter, and actor for the ground-breaking …
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Wilson writes about abolition, racial capitalism, organized violence, organized abandonment, changing state structure, t…
Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès Françoise Vergès is a political theorist, feminist, independent curator, and decolonial activist. V…
Thiago de Paula Souza
…za lives and works in Taboão da Serra district of São Paulo as a curator and educator with a background in the social …
Katayoun Arian
…urator, and writer with a background in art history (Leiden University, Leiden) and a Master’s degree in organization …
Haseeb Ahmed
Often working collaboratively, Ahmed integrates methodologies from the hard sciences into his art production. He recentl…
Athena Athanasiou
Athena Athanasiou teaches at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Pantheion University of Social and Political S…
Doug Ashford
Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist, and writer. Ashford uses documentation from social and political manifestations and d…
Mariana Castillo Deball
…opelman she is the initiator of the Ugbar Foundation, a fund that organizes interdisciplinary projects in the fields of …
Övül Durmuşoğlu
…on, “can we live together?,” urging people to create a common ground for thinking where the methodologies of social …
Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean is a political theorist and writer who holds the Harter Chair in Humanities and Social sciences at Hobart and …
Keti Chukhrov
Keti Chukhrov is an art theorist and philosopher. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and works as an editor and t…
Jan Breman
Jan Breman is Emeritus Professor at the Amsterdam Institute of Social science Research, University of Amsterdam and Hono…
Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a philosopher whose work intersects with social and political theory, gender studies, feminist theory,…
Neil Beloufa
Neïl Beloufa (born 1985) is an artist whose mixed media installations take a highly narrative approach influenced by sc…
Kitty Zijlmans
Kitty Zijlmans is an art historian and lecturer who is interested in contemporary art and art theory, with a focus on me…
Klaas Hoek
…role and place of photo/graphical reproductions on our understanding of fine art and the role and place of the image in …
Marijke Hoogenboom
Marijke Hoogenboom is a professor at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, where she is the head of the cross…
Alexei Penzin
Alexei Penzin is Reader in Art at the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton and Research Fellow at the Institute of…
Margo Slomp
Margo Slomp is an art historian and lecturer of art theory at Frank Mohr Institute, Hanze University of Applied sciences…
G. M. Tamás
G.M. Tamás is a philosopher and writer. He was elected Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy…
Aaron Schuster
…ook is a cultural-historical exploration of levitation, bringing together visual art, philosophy, religion, literature, …
Vjeran Pavlakovic
Vjeran Pavlakovic is an assistant professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka,…
Council
Council is a nonprofit organization based in Paris that assembles knowledge from the arts, sciences, and civil society i…
Henk Slager
Henk Slager focust zich op onderzoek en beeldende kunst. Hij is hoofd van MaHKU Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art an…
Boyan Manchev
Boyan Manchev (born 1970) is a philosopher and cultural theorist. Currently he is Director of Programs and Vice-Presiden…
Malgorzata Maciejewska
Małgorzata Maciejewska is a sociologist who specializes in work from the feminist perspective. In 2014 she received her…
Július Koller
Július Koller (born 1939, died 2007) was an artist whose practice considered the status of art in utilizing ready-made …
Michal Kozlowski
Michał Kozłowski is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warsaw. He received his PhD …
Kader Attia
…nd repair, which he uses to connect diverse bodies of knowledge, including architecture, music, psychoanalysis, medical …
Edit András
She has written extensively on Eastern and Central European art, with a focus on gender issues and social engagement, as…
What Is the City but the People? 2018
On 5 September 2018 we broadcasted live from Stranded FM | Unconvential Online Radio in Utrecht, to talk about our proje…
What Is the City but the People? I
In What Is the City but the People?, around 260 people of Utrecht gathered together to create a collective, dynamic self…
What Is the City but the People? II
In What Is the City but the People?, around 260 people of Utrecht gathered together to create a collective, dynamic self…
What Is the City but the People? III
In What Is the City but the People?, around 260 people of Utrecht gathered together to create a collective, dynamic self…
