09 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Program
BAK programming combines the artistic, experiential, theoretical, and political so as to imagine and enact transformative ways, with and through art, of being together otherwise. BAK’s current research trajectory Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing) is prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of fascisms, historical and contemporary. BAK organizes exhibitions, lectures, publications, workshops, and composite performative conferences with exhibitionary, discursive, and performative elements.
Calendar
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Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Education Program
14 December 2018
Mapping Histories: Conversing on Visuality and Subalternity
workshop by Lisa Ito
On 14 December 2018 art historian and activist Lisa Ito gives a workshop “Mapping Histories: Conversing on Visuality and Subalternity” as part of the Royal Academy of Art Non Linear Narrative master’s program. The workshop is held at BAK in the framework of Propositions #7: Evidentiary Methods—the public program in the context of the exhibition Forensic Justice.
Screening and Conversation
12 October 2023, 18.00-21.00
Images of Labor: De/Occupation of Watching
A public program realized in the framework of To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)
The experimental film My Favorite Job (2022), by Sahsko Protyah, screened on this occasion, documents the labor and the idle moments of a volunteer group who evacuated residents from the city of Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops, in spring 2022. The film both highlights and examines the transversal struggle that crosses both class and warfare. Any documentation is made under extreme danger of getting killed at the hands of the occupying army, since said photo or video may contain evidence of war crimes. The first-hand videos of mass destructions that appear in the beginning of the film were recorded and carried out of Mariupol at the operators’ own risk.
Book Launch, Conversation
23 March 2015
Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
On 23 March 2015, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova engages in a conversation with Rael Artel and Katarzyna Kosmala, on the occassion of the publication of the latter’s new edited collection Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe.
Symposium
20 May, 17.00–21 May, 23.10 2021
As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together
Symposium convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, and Vera List Center, New York
To Hold Things Together is a two-day symposium focusing on modes of social and institutional nodality and protocols of encounter and solidarity in our hyper-local and hyper-dispersed existence. It concludes the first year of the program cycle As for Protocols of the Vera List Center (VLC), a research center and a public forum for art, culture, and politics in New York City, and is curated by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and presented by VLC.
