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
Current & Upcoming
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Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Education Program
18-22 August 2014
Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
The intensive course Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation explores critical theory in the tradition of Continental philosophy, with special reference to the works of philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, Henri Bergson, and Rosi Braidotti.
Education Program
23 September–28 October 2019
Course: Art and Politics (BAK Public Studies)
A six-week course on the relations between contemporary art and the political
From 23 September until 28 October 2019, BAK organizes the course “Art and Politics.” In six weekly sessions, the participants learn about how contemporary art relates to the political in an accessible way. The course is taught by Maria Hlavajova, BAK’s general and artistic director. Deadline for registrations: 17 September 2019.
Educational platform
15-24 November 2013
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
Educational platform realized with the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines. Thinking with Filipino artists, writers, theater makers and members of cultural collectives such as the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, participants developed a model for a transnational “People’s Trial” as a proposition for the performative exploration of art’s possibility vis-a-vis the circumstances of oppression and inequality.
Lecture
18-19 June 2015
Algorithmic Cultures and Security
Fourth gathering in the Posthuman Glossary series. How could we address the impact of contemporary digital technologies on security and surveillance mechanisms and its influence on posthuman subject-formation?