BAK on 'violence'
Citizens and Subjects
OPEN CALL: Reading groups
…group collectively engages with selected reading matter on or from situated and discursive struggles that challenge the …
Usufructuaries of earth
…d of the earth to rise up against imperialism and create a new, affirmative world that departs from the hypocrisies and …
Violencia Fantasia with Deseo Real and Carla Arcos
… Deseo Real (Pablo Marte, Lorenzo Llamas) and Carla Arcos, we move through the city and sites of fantasy that obfuscate …
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
…ze our use of colonial languages at this event, and honor the languages that have been lost or invisibilized due to the …
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
… a writer, researcher, and grassroots activist, who is also a Mexican trans woman with a history of marginalization and …
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…epts across Attia’s artistic practice, particularly in relation to the material and immaterial injustices of colonial …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
…lmore (abolitionist scholar and activist, Lisbon). The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body tackles police …
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
From 7-10 November 2019, BAK joins forces with Le Guess Who? 2019. Besides hosting several of the festival’s events, w…
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…paces for art in the face of the pressing urgencies of the present. Driven by these urgencies—such as environmental …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…upting all over Khartoum, demanding the removal of the Sudanese government; these are usually suppressed with extreme …
Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality
…… presents an opportunity for viewers to absorb themselves in different narratives and positions dealing with war and …
Undercurrents
…n opportunity to extend the space for addressing the present conditions in the world marked by armed conflicts, ongoing …
How Much Fascism?
… WHW suggest, “we need to turn our attention to the silent fascism that is becoming normalized through the systematic …
Riot Now: Square, Street, Commune
…ed by Hopscotch reading room on 5 May 2024, which explores the political and theoretical stakes of value as it links 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
…“Debt and Study” chapter in The Undercommons (2013) to collectively unpack debt as a form of gendered and financial …
Micro-Resistances
…ommunities have developed ways to protect and defend a dignified life in the territory in spite of the various forms of …
Ethnography as (Im)possible Realism
In this text, Mollona recounts his comparative fieldwork in researching how working-class communities of Sheffield and V…
To Read the War
…nd, republished here on BAK’s digital forum, Prospections. Hurtled into being in these devastating days of escalating …
75 years of dispossession. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade.
…. 56 years of occupation. 16 years of blockade. We at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht plea for an end to the …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
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…
Immortals: On the Ancient Future Lives of Stone and Plastic
As quasi-immortal materials, stone and plastic bear witness to the catastrophic effects of extractive linearity, while a…
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…
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…
Schooling Assembly
Rather than cataloging these horrors again, Nora N. Khan instead recounts the types of moments that have been generated …
In solidarity with the Palestinian decolonization struggle and decolonization efforts everywhere
To counter the long histories and pervasive colonial violence that persists till today, we need to expand the horizon of…
Solidarity with La Colonie
…roduction and the everyday structures of living together; fathoming a future disentangled from the legacies of colonial …
To Live the Coming Death
…tematic recording of civilian deaths is neglected, when it should be a priority.” 1The counting of the dead in state …
Fragments of Repair
…wounds that issue from historical colonialisms and present-day authoritarianisms, economic disparity and growing racial …
Concerning War: A Critical Reader
Concerning War: A Critical Reader presents new and anthologized texts by artists and writers who analyze the possib…
Concerning War: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (Second Edition)
…itions, contributing authors reflect on the nature and numerous aspects of our contemporary condition marked by ongoing …
Antonio Paucar
…erlin, Berlin. His work centers on subjects such as Andean traditions, ancestrality, resistance, and ritual, as well as …
Carolina Caycedo
…k contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for the non-repetition of …
Yen Noh
…ist. Her practice engages with modes of linguistic and paralinguistic performativity as a way to challenge the cyclical …
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Wilson writes about abolition, racial capitalism, organized violence, organized abandonment, changing state structure, t…
Jota Mombaça
…ty and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of …
Shumaila Anwar
Peace is not only when there is no war, it is also defined as the absence of violence of all kinds, of conflict, and of …
Ana Naomi de Sousa
Ana Naomi de Sousa Ana Naomi de Sousa is an independent documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the director of The…
Frans-Willem Korsten
…mativity in the Northern and Southern Netherlands 1630-1690 – a program that focuses on theatrical representations of …
Miguel A. López
…ough actions and performances that intertwined reflections on the Peruvian colonial legacy, authoritarianism, religion, …
Rod Dickinson
…world, spanning the last thirty years. The script focuses on the use of language to neutralize acts of state sanctioned …
Andrea Schneemeier
…eractive) exchange, which intervenes in the public sphere in order to address and counter the consensus on normalcy and …
Milica Tomic
Milica Tomić (born 1960) is an artist who in her work researches, unearths, and makes public issues of political violen…
David Riff
…ow image production can be instrumentalized to universalize the value of a new elite, how it is a mimetic reaction to a …
Black Lives Matter UK (BLMUK)
…UK is the United Kingdom chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, working for Black empowerment and the end of …
Bev Skeggs
…research interests consolidate around the issues of value and values and focus on class, media and cultural formations, …
Avi Mograbi
…s an Israeli film director whose projects, regularly centered on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, examine how …
Sami Khatib
Sami Khatib is a writer and lecturer. He earned his PhD degree in Media and Communication Studies from Freie Universitä…
Quinsy Gario
…in Detroit places the Leuven uprising in a historical conversation that was explicitly anti-racist and against colonial …
Tanja Ostojic
…st recent cases of forced migration imposed on Roma in the European Union and south-eastern Europe, as well as cases of …
Trainings for the Not-Yet I
From 7-10 November 2019, BAK joined forces with Le Guess Who? festival 2019. Besides hosting several of the festival's e…
