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
Lecture
10 December 2005
On Mutation (post–Cold War and new order)
Lectures by and discussion with Viktor Misiano, Sean Snyder, and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
Performative conference
7 October 2017
Propositions #1: What We Mean
Propositions #1: What We Mean begins from an urgency for—and uncertainty about—what living in non-fascist ways could and does mean.
Panel Discussion
16 May 2014
The Commons as the Survival of the “Public”
Session 1 of the public editorial meeting series Other Survivalisms.
Learning
28 April, 12.00–29 April, 18.00 2023
Huisje, Boompje, Beestje (D.A.F.O.N.T.)
In this rare masterclass, retired teacher and artist Glenda Martinus teaches participants a thing or two about painting with Microsoft Word. Martinus shares tips, tricks, and secrets on how to use this software to its unexpected potential as a drawing tool. Participants learn how to draw three basic objects—a house, a tree, and an animal—in a seemingly innocent exercise that perhaps contains more layered social commentary. Drawing the worlds we desire does not require expensive tools or education, simply a curiosity to understand how the monster’s tools can topple the house of the master.
