BAK on 'training'
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht On 30 Ju…
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
It feels harder than ever to imagine a future that is both collectively desirable and achievable. Mainstream politics ha…
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, a long-time collaborator of BAK, who has recently joined the organization as artistic direct…
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
… Filipino, Caribbean, and other communities to collectively dream a parade compartment. Developed through a seven-day …
Usufructuaries of earth
…tuaries of earth—brought to life to narrate, learn, and unpack the histories and potentials of usufruct in workshops, …
Shapeshifting Sports Camp
During the training, participants play games that Gabriel Fontana developed in collaboration with Rotterdam-based school…
Czar Kristoff: Be(com)ing A Monument, 2023
…hink we would identify locations or arrive to destinations? How could we become navigators without monuments? In this …
Tales of Symbologies Here and Then, Now and There
…or gathering. In this workshop we will not only look at but see through a collectively generated textile. During this …
Violencia Fantasia with Deseo Real and Carla Arcos
…when it hides under a sweet and colonial disturbance, served in a porcelain cup, filled with heart-shaped foam. In this …
Huisje, Boompje, Beestje (D.A.F.O.N.T.)
… design, find the letters they use to write and celebrate and study and go about the business of everyday life. In this …
Complaint Making: Setting Up Conflict-Positive Spaces for Community Building Praxis
…esses, setting up conflict-positive spaces, and complaint-making as diversity work will form the body of this three-day …
The Diamond Mind II
Distribution EQ is experienced through resourceful memory: the embodiment of affective power, a specific emotional archi…
Belonging: Thou shalt not worship at the altar of access
…the end game is belonging; the value of embodied knowledge and the crip perspective on normalcy; radical slowness. This …
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
They are bodies that turn the everyday life problem of language into practices of resistance. Through trainings, perform…
Stranded FM: Connect/Re:connect – On The (Im)possibilities of Online Radio
…erfection and consciousness? How can we respond to our connections and reconnect in the process? The Re:connecting… …
FULL PROGRAM: UPS
Schedule 00. OPENING Saturday, 01 April 2023, 14:00–22:00 hrs RRRadiossage Reading Rhythms Club Free entr…
Bikewars: FreeShop/Workshop
Come to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst on Thursday 9 January 2020 for a FreeShop/Workshop in collaboration with Bikewars!…
International Migrant Day: a walk by the Basic Activist Kitchen
On Wednesday 18 December, the Basic Activist Kitchen will organize a walk in honor of International Migrant Day, startin…
Closing dinner with Bakudapan Food Study Group
…the Not-Yet, with Bakudapan Food Study Group. Buy tickets (via Eventbrite) | Facebook event An integral part of the …
Time for a Break(down): Reimagining Social Flows in the Not-Yet
…€10 regular | €7.50 student discount Tickets include dinner by the Basic Activist Kitchen. Free places: For each …
Urban Practices and the Future of the City
…5 December 2019 as part of trainings for the Not-Yet (14 September 2019–12 January 2020). The program also includes a …
Lecture: David Harvey on Urban Front
…ot-Yet (14 September 2019–12 January 2020). The program includes two additional events on Thursday 5 December 2019: a …
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
…ourse of trainings for the Not-Yet, the Basic Activist Kitchen (the BAK) organizes daily cooking sessions and meals for …
Performance: Black Quantum Futurism
BAK invites you for a special performance on Saturday 23 November 2019, by interdisciplinary creative collective Black Q…
Le Guess Who? at BAK
This year, BAK is one of the festival locations of Le Guess Who?: a festival dedicated to showcasing boundary-crossing m…
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
… radical self-care through various artistic works and projects. This collaborative performance departs from a communal …
A Feast By & For, with De Voorkamer
…oorkamer: an evening on how to foster inclusivity and build inclusive spaces, co-created by all the participants in the …
Collective Performance: Open Access, with Carmen Papalia
… care. The public program consists of an inclusive, performative presentation by several of the participants from the …
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…Program: 12.00–13.00 hrs DOORS OPEN A possibility to visit trainings for the Not-Yet, an exhibition as a series of …
Propositions #9/5: Public Program
…a be socialized differently? 15.30–16.15 hrs CLOSING DISCUSSION 16.15 hrs DRINKS Tickets (via Eventbrite) Per …
Public Program: Decommodifying Housing
…ska Ottjes), Refugee Collective We Are Here, Ethel Baraona Pohl, and Irene Calabuch Miron. Decommodifying Housing/i …
Unrestricted Sociality
…ic, emotional, and intuitive knowledge—be shared in an informal social setting? The event is the culmination of the …
Unforgetting
… €6 normal, €3 student discount. Ticket includes entry to exhibition trainings for the Not-Yet. Participants to the …
Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women
New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht present the gathering Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Wom…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
… (Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele). Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars is a week-long series of …
Alone Again (In the Likeness of Life)
…ity and empowerment in the performances. Being “together” in a quasi-collective form can be both liberating and cons…
Citizens and Subjects: Aernout Mik
…into one another to create a multifaceted installation. In the two-channel installation, training Ground, a fictional …
Inter-discipline or Non-discipline?
Contemporary artists today, less than ever, rely exclusively on the classical training that once defined them in previou…
ON MEDIATION/2: Theory and Curatorial Practices in the Global Art
…s artistic director Maria Hlavajova gives a talk in Barcelona on 10 December 2014, as a part of the second On Mediation …
Harvesting: Amman Reading Group
In this roaming, multi-day reading group on the hilltops of Jerash and along the edges of Palestine, the Bahaleen collec…
Scarecrows
…, “have been expropriated by the Israeli state and are administered as Israeli settlements, nature reserves, military …
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
New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy (2015), edited by Renée In der Maur and Jonas Staal in dialogue with D…
Solidarity with La Colonie
Together with artists, researchers, activists, local residents, and various publics La Colonie seeks to decolonize the c…
