BAK on 'study'
Spectral Infrastructure
Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity
…dational perspectives. Nicosia M. Shakes’s research on Black feminist theatre in Jamaica and Carlos Ulises Decena’s …
Climate Propagandas Congregation
…he first known propaganda department in history. Now, four hundred years later, we gather a new two-day congregation to …
Open Kitchen Weekender
…, brewers, food activists, artists, musicians, performers, and any bodies for whom collectivity is a site of action and …
To Watch the War: In Solidarity
…rael-Lebanon War, Rabih Mroué collected newspaper clippings and digital imagery for about 10 years so as to restlessly …
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
It feels harder than ever to imagine a future that is both collectively desirable and achievable. Mainstream politics ha…
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…emon. Dessert Kola Roman balls with rose water and frozen roses. ULTRAHOSPITALITY Since October 2022, seven …
ULTRACIRCULATORY RADIO STREAM: Critical Circulation Mi
… in Chinese can mean “rice.” These over-indulgences of critical carbs are the workout diet for the Ultracirculation …
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…ge School is a temporary cultural platform for diasporic affects and practice exchanges around the kitchen as a site of …
Huisje, Boompje, Beestje (D.A.F.O.N.T.)
…any people, with a limited knowledge of what is “good” design, find the letters they use to write and celebrate and …
Publifluor: Resharpening Blobby
…fat shapes, psychedelic and incomplete. In this two day workshop, The Publifluor research group invites you to join the …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering IV: On Decolonial Aesthesis
…s (Paris) and poet and art critic Chris Cyrille (Paris), convenor & participant, respectively, of the La Colonie Nomade …
Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade
17 April–3 July 2021 Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade is a three-month collective study program conceptualized …
Fragments of Repair
…ts of Repair/Kader Attia, an exhibition by Attia at BAK in Utrecht; Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade, a collective …
Closing dinner with Bakudapan Food study Group
…a spot, please e-mail julia@bakonline.org (First come, first serve) More on Bakudapan Food study Group Bakudapan is a …
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
See the day schedule below, and the full program here (PDF). Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day …
Unrestricted Sociality
…ma Smith’s investigation into the interplay between the body and its cultural, social, and physical environment, this …
Küba/Paradise
…ith different backgrounds who did not fit the society’s standard definition of a citizen. Ataman spent over two years …
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…ntellectual, and activist practices. Artists, curators, activists, and theorists will convene workshops, presentations, …
Landscape
…ally and literally), she envisions strata of a fictional dominion. The work is a complex, structured entity, a detailed …
Test Department #1
…re more that would link the individual artistic practices within the group than a mere coincidence of being in the same …
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…ntellectual, and activist practices. Artists, curators, activists, and theorists will convene workshops, presentations, …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
…tten recognized as the status quo. Through case studies, storytelling, theory, presentations, discussions, workshops, …
New World Academy Exhibition
…orld Academy, Centraal Museum, Utrecht acquires the videos of lectures and key cultural documents that were used in the …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…niversity of Warsaw (F/SUW)—is a FORMER WEST Public Editorial Meeting that takes as its starting point F/SUW’s case …
Strijd: Art, Activism and the University
On 18 May 2016, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht hosts an evening initiated by the curatorial team of Strijd inf…
Harvesting: Amman Reading Group
…f Jerash and along the edges of Palestine, the Bahaleen collective invited artists and researchers to accompany them to …
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…
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 …
A Pluriverse of Local Worlds: A Review of Computing within Limits—Related Terminology and Practices
A Pluriverse of Local Worlds: A Review of Computing within Limits—Related Terminology and Practices In her 2021 study …
In Search of Gilbert and Idrissa: African Students in the USSR
For her contribution to “ExitStateCraft,” artist Sandra Muteteri Hermans presents the script of a film project in pr…
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…
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…
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…
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
ExitStateCraft
The sharp knife of Macchiavelli’s thought had cut off all the threads by which in former generations the state was f…
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
Field Meal Network
… Field Meals was proposed by artist Santiago Pinyol as part of his research and public program for the Ultrahospitality …
The Garage School
This iteration of the escuela is convened by Kari Robertson and Santiago Pinyol. Kari Robertson is an artist, e…
Esra Oskay
… solo show Project: Ankara, at Elgiz Museum, İstanbul, 2022. She received the 2020 border_less book fund for her work …
Sekolah Salah Didik
… the KUNCI house, the School of Improper Education emerged in 2018 from the piles of curiosity and questions related to …
Gatari Surya Kusuma
With KUNCI, she conducts action research and deepens critical pedagogy with the School of Improper Education. With Bakud…
Fiky Daulay
Apart from his main interests in documentary and sound studies, he works with Yogyakarta-based electronics study group b…
KUNCI study Forum and Collective
…I has been continuously transforming its structure, ways, and medium of working. Initially formed as a cultural studies …
Hong Kong-Mainland Relationship Repairment study Group (HKMRRSG)
They are connected through shared feelings of displacement and interest in catalyzing nuanced imaginations of the pres…
Elaine W. Ho
The comma and the conjunction complicate and circulate through her work and this paragraph, weaving a sociopolitics of…
Renan Laru-an
He creates exhibitionary, public, and research programs that study “insufficient” and “subtracted” images or…
