BAK on 'war'
Spectral Infrastructure
Who if not we…?
Concerning war
Future Vocabularies
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 …
Chapter three, convention
The convention in the context of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day gathering at BAK that summons differen…
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/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
… note that the work contains graphic video surveillance footage of the assault on Théo Luhaka. Although we at BAK are a…
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…
Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women
…all backgrounds to learn about and share challenges that women newcomers experience, and how to veer these challenges to…
Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
… but loud minority of far-right populists and their anti-EU, anti-democratic, and anti-civil rights agendas, carried for…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture wars
…ctively reflect upon this current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, also reffered to as the “culture …
Küba/Paradise
…ba (2004) is a communal portrait of the inhabitants of an area in southern Istanbul known by this name, which emerged to…
Cordially Invited, episode 3
…al art program Who if not we…? 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe, and is realized within the framework of Thinking For…
