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
Lecture and Conversation
28 September 2023, 18.00-21.00
To Watch Around, To Watch Outside
A public program realized in the framework of To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)
In this lecture, Bazdyrieva discusses the material implications of the sociotechnical imaginaries that contribute to the “resourcification” of Ukraine—wherein its land, natural resources, and people are viewed as an inexhaustible resource that is constitutively “outside” of European sustainability projects.
Panel Discussion
21 June 2016
After Europe
On the opening night of Jonas Staal’s exhibition After Europe, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of BAK, will join a panel discussion with Quim Arrufat, Angela Dimitrakaki, and Despina Koutsoumpa.
Radio Stream
19 February 2023, 14.00
ULTRACIRCULATORY RADIO STREAM: Critical Circulation Mi
Community Portal presents...
Mi or Mie in Bahasa Indonesia means “noodles,” while mi in Chinese can mean “rice.” These over-indulgences of critical carbs are the workout diet for the Ultracirculation study group. Now in Yogyakarta, Critical Circulation Mi invites listeners into a guided soundscape with aurations by KUNCI Study Forum and Collective, School for Improper Education, Elaine W. Ho, and Wan Ing Que. While eating, listening, and reading, fieldwork-in-progress looking into the so-called “undocumented period” of the New Order Regime will be broadcast and unfolded in collaboration with participants in SOIE.
Lecture
5 January 2015
On the present Zeitgeist and the position of the artist
Maria Hlavajova speaks about the current Zeitgeist and the position of the artist within the framework of the Honger naar radicaliteit. Dood aan de nuance project at De Theaterschool, Amsterdam.