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

Suggestions from the archive

Learning

19-20 October 2020

Public Studies: Practice as Theory (online), with Tony Cokes

A two-day workshop by artist Tony Cokes, in the framework of exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals

As a part of the exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, the artist presents a two-day workshop investigating critical themes that circulate through his work, and various intersections with and applications of forms of the theoretical.

Training

9-13 October 2019

Training IV: Each Step Yields Depth

Cooking, recipe writing, storytelling, dialogue, translation, language-learning and language-teaching.

The fourth training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with Chloë Bass, and takes place from 9-13 October 2019.  This training focuses on cooking, recipe writing, storytelling, dialogue, translation, language-learning and language-teaching.

08 September 2015–24 June 2017

Instituting Otherwise

In 2016–2017, BAK dedicates a series of discursive, educational, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute otherwise.”

Education Program

06 September–12 October 2014

New World Embassy: Azawad

New World Embassy: Azawad explores the intersection of art, theory, and activism through the proposition of temporarily instituting an operational embassy as an extraterritorial space of representation, negotiation, and international exchange.