BAK on 'video'
Spectral Infrastructure
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 Fragment…
Work by Kader Attia at Stadhuisbrug, Utrecht
From 1 to 13 June 2021 the video Oil and Sugar #2 (2007) by Kader Attia is on view in public space, as part of Fragment…
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 R…
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/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…
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 a…
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…
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…
To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) Guidebook English
…ctober 2023. This moving image forum is conceptualized by Olexii Kuchanskyi and Oleksiy Radynski and features films and …
Secret Proof
Responding to the experiences of evidence production by Jemez Pueblo members in New Mexico, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik’s…
Together in Time
…ia Groom—co-editor of the “No Linear Fucking Time” focus on Prospections. Freeman and Groom also discuss recent …
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…
Oleksiy Radynski: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
The responses are 1–5 minute video statements recorded with technology at hand: mobile phones, voice recorders, Skype.…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
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 …
Kader Attia and Marion von Osten
This conversation first appeared in RepaiR, Kader Attia and Léa Gauthier, eds. (Paris: BlackJack Éditions, 2014). It …
