BAK on 'war'
Spectral Infrastructure
Who if not we…?
Concerning war
Future Vocabularies
Message from BAK Supervisory Board: Maria Hlavajova bids farewell to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
… with publications such as Fragments of Repair (with Kader Attia and Wietske Maas, Jap Sam Books, forthcoming, 2025); To…
Climate Propagandas Congregation
…ollectively imagine and propagate forms of meaningful collective survival in—and in spite of—the present extinction …
Talent Takes a Seat
…white institutions. This community-led program has fermented, slowly, over a year of conscious facilitation between De Z…
Open Kitchen Weekender
…or nourishing radical affinities. OKW seeks sporulation of these aural-oral DIY practices found in community kitchens to…
To Watch the war: In Solidarity
…g—with and through art—to the vital sense of solidarity with people and other-than-human subjects exposed to the …
Research Interrupted
… Notes by Esra Oskay 19:15–20 hrs Ongoing Research Presentation and Discussion by Yâni/Yaani (Hanieh Fatouraee, Si…
(Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling
…es into and expands upon a trace of thought, while Athina Koutsiou firmly advocates for acceptance and actively works to…
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
…is crisis of imagination by furthering marginalization, polarization, and apathy. Now trapped between a populist pull to…
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
… city of Utrecht will lose a crucial platform for collective imagination, experimentation, and education, which works to…
Pride at BAK: Queer Film Program
The queer film program covers a variety of topics: gender history, exceptional stories of queer individuals, a proposal …
Convention: public program
Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs Saturday 25 May 2024 12–22.00 hrs PRACTICAL INFORMATION The public progra…
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
A City Within a Building
…itnesses to the attack. In doing so, it underscores the significance of this crime in the broader context of Russia’s …
OPEN CALL: Volunteers
…r volunteers around our Community Portal program, such as our upcoming public event Open Kitchen Weekender. Looking for…
Chapter three, convention
Friday 24 May 2024 16.00–22.00 hrs Saturday 25 May 2024 12–22.00 hrs PRACTICAL INFORMATION The public progra…
Chapter one, exhibition
…s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put for…
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
BAK Community Portal presents . . . RAINBOW warRIORS Solid in the Streets, Fluid in the Skies 22 October–10 Novem…
Usufructuaries of earth
…s, trainings, and common discussions. Summoned with an intense sense of urgency—given that the world is drenched in …
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…e now forcibly dispersed across the world, engaging in struggle against Russian imperial aggression and all imperialist …
ULTRAHOSPITALITY FIELD MEAL 1: SANCOCHO FLORAL
…rose water and frozen roses. ULTRAHOSPITALITY Since October 2022, seven study groups have been doing field work to…
Sancochotopia: A Winter Ultrahospitality Mini Garage School
…olu Ekspres (Cengiz Mengüç) ULTRAHOSPITALITY Since October 2022, seven study groups have been doing field work to…
Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution
…can join on twitch viawww.twitch.tv Re-Posing: Resistance, Respiration, and Resolution Thus Gotama Buddha walked to…
Huisje, Boompje, Beestje (D.A.F.O.N.T.)
…nts a thing or two about painting with Microsoft Word. Martinus shares tips, tricks, and secrets on how to use this soft…
The Diamond Mind II
…Q is experienced through resourceful memory: the embodiment of affective power, a specific emotional architecture whose …
Belonging: Thou shalt not worship at the altar of access
…the crip perspective on normalcy; radical slowness. This training offers a frictional and anti-assimilationist stance to…
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
…anguage to think about the world: the world being language. We turn our minds and bodies to the language we are using: a…
FULL PROGRAM: UPS
…RRICULUM Friday–Saturday, 19–21 May 2023 Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice A symposium to…
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
…trans migration in Lebanon and the Netherlands. SEHAQ, Queer Refugees Group is a refugee-led collective that raises a…
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
…sessions aim to rethink the key questions around urgent social, economic, and ecological challenges and to cast them for…
To Watch the war
…3. It is convened from within the experimental film and video making that has emerged in direct response to the Russian …
HKU Graduation Project 2023: Refractions
…ross a range of media and interests. Diverse life experiences and multiple viewpoints converge to allow new knowledge, a…
Uitfeest 2021: Introductions to Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia
…the exhibition, it is not necessary to register in advance, you can visit any time during our opening hours. Please be a…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…sible bridges” enabling passages, transferences, and translations, between medical, ritual, and artistic practices, to…
Fragments of Repair/Gathering IV: On Decolonial Aesthesis
…s a talk by sociologist and decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez (Utrecht), on the concept of decolonial aesthesis. After…
Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade
17 April–3 July 2021 Fragments of Repair/La Colonie Nomade is a three-month collective study program conceptualized …
Fragments of Repair
Fragments of Repair In Fragments of Repair, artist Kader Attia proposes the notion of decolonial repair as a tactic to…
Bikewars: FreeShop/Workshop
Come to BAK, basis voor actuele kunst on Thursday 9 January 2020 for a FreeShop/Workshop in collaboration with Bikewars!…
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
…the freeshop, events and hungry bellies at cultural center ACU. The food system is broken, and TBYW try to make people a…
Performance: Black Quantum Futurism
…For this performance, Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Philips combine spoken word poetry and live music to activate portals to…
Le Guess Who? at BAK
…entire city center of Utrecht with over 150 performances set to electrify pop venues, theaters, churches, galleries and …
Le Guess Who? Ed Dowie
…stated enough. Drawing inspiration from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel ‘The Unconsoled’, the former Brothers In Sound stal…
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…ower engaged in depoliticizing and neutralizing the possibility of art as aesthetico-political experimentation geared to…
Propositions #9/5: Public Program
This last day of the week of Propositions #9 Deserting from the Culture wars consists of a public program including a pa…
