BAK on 'theory'
Postsecularism
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
…ings with what we have. With the skills we put at the table. Doing what we like doing together. DIY practices, …
Academia in the Face of Genocide
In this talk, Neve Gordon will discuss the response of academic institutions to the genocidal violence perpetrated in th…
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
…e past 25 years, BAK has become the global art institution—by and with others—for groundbreaking artistic practice, …
Le Guess Who? 2023 at BAK
… of a mainstream cultural vocabulary. A combination of science fiction, technology, cultural heritage and post-colonial …
Ultrastudio XXL
… workshop by Embodied theory Assembly (Khurram Saleem, Kiek Korevaar, and Rita Sousa), exploring the resonances between …
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
… styles of writing; ethics in supervision; and supervising collaborative projects. The programme contains excursions to …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…pair/Gatherings, a hybrid off- and online series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums around the …
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings
The gatherings take place on a fortnightly basis (at BAK and on bakonline.org) between 2 May–26 September 2021. Confir…
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
Lecture: David Harvey on Urban Front
…r actuele kunst, Utrecht proudly presents a lecture by Distinguished Professor David Harvey. The lecture focuses on the …
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…” has been an adage since the inception of BAK in 2000, which has driven its practice as a basis where art, research, …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…ons are offered per (academic) year to Netherlands-based and international practitioners involved in contemporary arts, …
Test Department #1
…riment. In the framework of graduate art education, we have collaboratively tested a possible model of how to bring art …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
…alisms and rising fascisms have so violently gotten recognized as the status quo. Through case studies, storytelling, …
Inter-discipline or Non-discipline?
…d reconstruction of certain kinds of knowledge, it retains the potential to break through the dichotomy of practice and …
Artists as (Public) Intellectuals
…localized relation’ to knowledge… The specific intellectual thus represents a ‘new mode of the connection between …
How Much Fascism?
…ticularly to tensions between personal experience and media-constructed images. She is a co-founder of the Yugoslav art/…
Critical theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
…ntensive course Critical theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation explores critical …
ON MEDIATION/2: theory and Curatorial Practices in the Global Art
BAK’s artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Barcelona on 10 December 2014, as a part of the second On Medi…
How to Sort out the Many Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropocene
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht organize a lecture…
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…
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…
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…
Informatic Opacity
…c Opacity Zach Blas’s “Informatic Opacity” extrapolates from Caribbean philosopher and poet Éduoard Glissant’s …
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporal…
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 …
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…
Living Without Approval
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy (2015), edited by Renée In der Maur and Jonas Staal in dialogue with D…
ExitStateCraft
…(2017–ongoing) series, while engaging with the ongoing and intensifying problematization of the state in contemporary …
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…
Deserting from the Culture Wars
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Deserting from the Culture Wars, …
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Propositions for Non-Fascist Livi…
FORMER WEST: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
…eological, posthuman, and post-historical formations that have emerged alongside. Bringing together both practice and …
Marion von Osten,
…es of canonization by scrutinizing, obstructing, and unsettling divisions categorizing art, art object, history making, …
Astrid Feringa
During the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, Feringa will further develop Hardcore Soft Politics: an auto-ethnograph…
Alev Ersan
… Ersan will work on Translation as Digging, Writing Into and Out Of Loss, an ongoing project around translation, queer …
Sadrie Alves
…ative projects that share a focus on undermined visual languages, “unreliable” knowledges, and intersectional …
Senka Milutinović
Their practice revolves around storytelling, media theory, archiving, and writing. They co-host and organize the Readin…
Zach Blas
Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory, performance, and science fiction, Blas has exhibited, le…
Verónica Gago
… professor of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires; professor of gender studies and critical …
Layal Ftouni
Her teaching is transdisciplinary, crossing fields of gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, political theory, …
Philippa Driest
…ge through (research) installations, video works, and printed matter. In 2018 she initiated KIOSK Rotterdam, an art and …
Olga Bryukhovesta
…rofessor of cultural studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, where she teaches courses on film …
Paul Rekret
Paul Rekret Paul Rekret is a researcher and teacher in political and cultural theory. He is associate professor of pol…
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Dhanveer Singh Brar Dhanveer Singh Brar is a scholar of Black studies, cultural studies, sound studies, and critical the…
Aimee Carrillo Rowe
…studies at California State University, Northridge. Carrillo Rowe teaches and writes in the areas of rhetoric, feminist …
Gesyada Siregar
Gesyada Siregar is a curator, writer, and art organizer. She is subject coordinator for articulation and curation at G…
Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Kevin Ochieng Okoth Kevin Ochieng Okoth is an independent writer and researcher. He holds an MPhil in political theory f…
Nora N. Khan
…culty of the Digital + Media Department at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, where she teaches critical …
Chris Cyrille
… Cyrille Chris Cyrille is a poet, art critic and freelance exhibition storyteller. After two master degrees, one in art …
Omedi Ochieng
…gagements are animated by the search for justice, wisdom, ethics, and beauty. His areas of expertise include rhetorical …
Ilse van Rijn
… teaches at the University of Amsterdam and is a tutor at THIRD/ DAS Graduate School, AHK, Amsterdam. She also led the …
