BAK on 'video'
Spectral Infrastructure
Climate Propagandas Congregation
At this critical moment, during a time entwined along the nexus of genocide and ecocide, BAK and artist Jonas Staal conv…
To Watch the War: In Solidarity
…astrophic military reality. On the other hand, Mroué’s Images Mon Amour (2021) is a monumental, slowly ascending …
Pride at BAK: Queer Film Program
The queer film program covers a variety of topics: gender history, exceptional stories of queer individuals, a proposal …
DAY FOR PALESTINE
…d. This event brings together directly impacted communities and the general audience through art and social action. The …
The Indonesian Dialogues
…eir collective efforts will lead to the creation of The Indonesian Dialogues, a multidisciplinary performance featuring …
A City Within a Building
… the city was fully occupied by the army, the theater’s ruins were camouflaged, turned into a backdrop for propaganda …
Mental Health Symposium: Communal Care & Healing
…OCQUnity 19.20–19.50: Keynote speech by dr. Aminata Cairo 19.50–20:00: Short break 20.00–20.05: Campaign …
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
… Rojas Chaves (Venezuela, 1992) is a Costa Rican artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Through sculptures, installations, …
Stranded FM: Connect/Re:connect – On The (Im)possibilities of Online Radio
…orld, terms like community and connection are the first thing you encounter. Yet, with an increasing focus on DJ mixes, …
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall
… space make up the core of Barzegar’s artistic and research practice—in-situ spatial interventions of sculpture and …
To Watch the War
A moving image forum with films and videos by Roman Himey & Yarema Malashchuk, Lisa Hoffmann, Yuriy Hrytsyna, Dana Kavel…
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…omprehensive exhibition of Attia’s work in the Netherlands. The exhibition features a constellation of the artist’s …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VII
Tickets available for both in person attendance at BAK, Utrecht and for online livestreaming. A ticket for the gathering…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
… Pandolfo (medical anthropologist, Berkeley, CA) and includes selected screenings of “fragments” of Kader Attia’s …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering V: The Object’s Interlacing
Broadcast live from BAK, Utrecht and New York Taking place on Thursday 24 June 2021, the fifth gathering of Fragments …
Work by Kader Attia at Stadhuisbrug, Utrecht
Artwork description: Kader Attia, Oil and Sugar #2, 2007, video, 4:30 min. In Oil and Sugar #2, a construction made f…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering IV: On Decolonial Aesthesis
Broadcast live from BAK, Utrecht and Paris Taking place on 10 June 2021, the fourth gathering of Fragments of Repair/G…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering III: Utopianism, Anti-Utopianism, and the Radical Politics of Chronotopian Ungovernability
Broadcast live from BAK, Utrecht and Granville, Ohio Taking place on 13 May 2021, the third gathering of Fragments of …
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…r is most pointedly addressed in Attia’s multi-media installation The Object’s Interlacing (2020), which includes a …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
…, The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s eponymous work (…
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/La Colonie Nomade
…nçoise Vergès. Along with Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia (an exhibition of Kader Attia’s sculptures, collages, and …
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…
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
48-hour Selma
Presented as a part of Prospections’s ongoing focus, Tactical Solidarities, Cokes’s work considers the effect that i…
Küba/Paradise
In the exhibition Kutluğ Ataman: Küba/Paradise two major video installations by Kutluğ Ataman are on view. Each work …
1968–2018: 50 Years of Art and Culture in the Struggle of the Filipino People for National and Social Liberation
The year of 2018 marks the 50th year of the Filipino people’s struggle against imperialism, bureaucrat capitalism and …
Alone Again (In the Likeness of Life)
…rative working process with a group or community that usually results in a musical or choreographic performance and its …
The Day After Yesterday
…amily to re-stage this situation, although this time they are walking in the opposite direction, toward the viewer. The …
RIR in Public: Sopawan Boonnimitra
…ion, the artist introduces and reflects on the current stage of her research, screens a few fragments from the unedited …
Citizens and Subjects: Aernout Mik
In Citizens and Subjects, Aernout Mik presents a new, complex multichannel video installation consisting of three new wo…
Forensic Justice
From October 18, 2018 till January 27, 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht presents Forensic Justice, an exhi…
Landscape
…d further cultivation. Opting for outward observation rather than self-reflection, in Total Analysis of the Site (2005, …
Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality
…table for visitors who want to consume the exhibition quickly: there are fourteen hours of material to view on film and …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
… least partly reliant on the coherence of that culture, where aesthetic coordinates travel across different forms: from …
Other Survivalisms
A detailed program and video recordings of all contributions to the FORMER WEST Public Editorial Meeting, Other Survival…
Human-Inhuman-Posthuman
BAK Research Fellow: Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Director of Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht If art a…
Adrian Paci
In the work of Adrian Paci (paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, and installations), the social reality of Albania …
Unevenly
…t and communal existence, and attempts to illuminate some changes evident in Haegue Yang’s most recent works. Three …
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
The group exhibition First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger inquires into the emotional infrastructure…
Aernout Mik: Raw Footage/Scapegoats
…epiction of war, and how normality and extremity are interwoven in wartime situations. In Raw Footage, a two-channel …
Unclaimed Knowledge
… Berlin 19.00 hrs Break (with optional light meal) 20.00 hrs Performance by artist Claire Harvey and screening of …
Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things
… Olga Chernysheva includes several new works and a survey of her practice. Through her paintings, watercolors, objects, …
AICA Award
…gh and consequent way in which BAK chooses its projects and presents them include the following: in 2004, Warte Mal!, a …
The Social Studio
The exhibition Artur Zmijewski: The Social Studio presents a selection of recent works by Artur Zmijewski, including vid…
Fitna, the video Battle
A lecture by Liesbeth van Zoonen with an introduction by Rosi Braidotti as part of the Postsecularism research itinerary…
1st FORMER WEST Congress
A detailed program and video recordings of all 1st FORMER WEST Congress contributions are available here. Between 5 an…
Artists Beyond
…osition in the complex contexts he chooses to address. Mark Boulos is currently working on a multi-screen documentary …
2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress, On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination
A detailed program and video recordings of all lectures presented during the 2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress, On Horiz…
3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two
A detailed program and all video recordings of contributions presented during the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Par…
How Much Fascism?
…Rotterdam. Lidwien van de Ven Paris, 01/05/2012 (Marine) Lidwien van de Ven (born 1963) works with photography and …
Learning Place: Screening and Discussion
… (Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art), The Hague. Produced over the course of the last semester at BAK, the …
New World Academy Exhibition
…Frascati Theater, Amsterdam. Following the exhibition of the New World Academy, Centraal Museum, Utrecht acquires the …
The Southern Summer School
… with contributions by Yvette Mutumba and Wayne Modest 17.00 hrs: Dinner + Drinks 18.00 hrs: Screening Program with …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…versity of Warsaw, Warsaw/London); *Airi Triisberg * (art worker and activist, Tallinn). For full program, as well as …
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 …
S.E.F.A. (Se Eu Fosse Angolano)
…Utrecht as a part of BAK’s Research-in-Residence (RIR) program. During his stay he developed the initial phase of his …
Learning & Unlearning
Maria Hlavajova chairs the Learning & Unlearning session of Artist Organisations International. For video registra…
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…
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
