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
Crowdfunding Campaign
Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Panel Discussion
16 May 2014
The Commons as the Survival of the “Public”
Session 1 of the public editorial meeting series Other Survivalisms.
Public Program
12-13 November 2022
Spectral Infrastructure
On Unhoused Music, (Im)Possible Realism, and the Unarchivable
This two-day event of sounds and words presents fields of enquiry that the freethought members have developed through their long-term research trajectory at BAK. The event includes screenings, discussions, presentations, music listening, and DJing sessions weaved together by dialogues. Organized in collaboration with Le Guess Who? festival.
Training
11-15 December 2019
Training XXI: Training for the Underwater(ed) Land
The twenty-first training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with QANAT (Abdellah Hassak, Amine Lahrach, Edouard Sors, Francesca Masoero, George Bajalia, Jérôme Giller, Louisa Aarrass, Noureddine Ezarraf, and Sara Frikech), and takes place on 11–15 December 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday). This training focuses on artistic interventions, participative research, and discussions aimed at building a political and poetical map of water in its entanglement with the formation of landscapes and worldviews.
Public Program
09 September–29 October 2023
To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)/Public Program
To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) involves a hybrid off- and online sequence of conversations and screenings around discursive and artistic interventions that reimagine the social implications of watching the war through ways that disrupt, subvert, resist the media’s incessant spectacularization of war.