13 February–29 December 2014

 

Survival

  • Aernout Mik, Cardboard Walls, 2013, installation view. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

  • The Revolution is Without Frontiers, photo by Moussa Ag Assarid

The project Future Vocabularies is initiated in 2014 with an opening vocabulary entry on survival. It is envisioned as a foundational sequence, evolving over the course of the full year and made up of multiple conceptual narratives from which to draw the subsequent themes and methods for both thinking and acting.

Unlike the semesters that follow, each of which entails collaboration with an individual fellow, the inaugural term brings together a number of artists and theorists from several of BAK’s key past and ongoing projects. In this way, we wish to draw a line of continuity from within both our dialogues with our publics and our archive of knowledge, composed in various collective collaborative constellations, into the unknown of the future.

Brought together under the common denominator of (rethinking) survival, the project attempts to act out concrete propositions that explore the “conditions of possibility” from within what is largely considered the crisis-ridden, ruinous folds of today—working not against, but “in spite of the times” we live in.

Exhibitions

02.03.–29.06.2014
Cardboard Walls

01.11.–28.12.2014
In the Stomach of the Predators

Learning place

13.02.–05.06.2014
Learning Place: Curating the Political

09.10.–18.12.2014
Learning Place: Art Amid The Contemporary Disquiet

Publications & texts

Exhibition text
Future Vocabularies: Survival
by Maria Hlavajova

Suggestions from the archive

Exhibitionary

8 March, 19.00–7 March, 22.00 2024

Yallah Sabaya

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Reading Group

Exhibition

07 March–02 June 2024

Usufructuaries of earth
Chapter one: exhibition

The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans.

Convention