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

Training

16-20 October 2019

Training IX: The Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op Autumn School

Presentations and talks with images, casestudies of alternative art, community and economic models, and collective production and spinning into motion of plans and strategies

Training with Fran Ilich: presentations and talks with images, casestudies of alternative art, community and economic models, and collective production and spinning into motion of plans and strategies on Wednesday until Sunday 16-20 October 2019.

BAK basis voor

1 February, 09.30–2 February, 18.00 2020

2.Dh5 Festival – Defeating Dystopia?

BAK, basis voor 2.Dh5

The fourteenth edition of the yearly 2.Dh5 festival is coming to BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht on 1-2 February 2020, with the theme “Defeating Dystopia?” The festival is part of the program series BAK, basis voor…, in which BAK join forces with other organizations in addressing shared urgencies and developing propositions for a future of “being together otherwise.”

Education Program

15 March, 19.00–1 April, 21.00 2021

Course: Art as Politics [fully booked!]

An Online Extension of BAK Public Studies

Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers yet another rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 March & 1 April 2021. This digital extension of BAK Public Studies, taught by Maria Hlavajova, is prompted by the urgency to continue collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present.
Deadline applications: 3 March. Deadline feewaivers: 23 February.