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
Learning
22 April, 11.00–23 April, 17.00 2023
Ultrastudio XXL
Ultrastudio investigates the act of publishing as a technique to build more habitable communities. It is convened by the BookBinding Workshop of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (designers Miquel Hervás Gómez and Ott Metusala) together with cultural worker and housing rights advocate Lila Athanasiadou.
Congress
29 September 2012
3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two
Following the deliberations during Part One titled Beyond What Was Contemporary Art (April 2012, Vienna), Part Two of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress takes place on 29 September 2012 and bases its discussions on a question ushered in—somewhat unexpectedly—by theorist and curator Irit Rogoff in her closing keynote address for Part One: “What on earth do they mean when they say art?”
Public Program
13 November, 14.00–14 November, 18.00 2021
Music as Spectral Infrastructure (Le Guess Who? 2021)
A two-day program of discussions, sound works, film screenings, and DJ sets organized in the framework of the festival Le Guess Who? 2021 in Utrecht.
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.
