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, Conversation
28 October 2016, 19.30
Q&A with Nicoline van Harskamp and invited experts
Curator and writer Mihnea Mircan has been commissioned by BAK to write an essay on the occasion of Englishes, the exhibition by Nicoline van Harskamp. This text is published online at bakonline.org. A public reading of the text by Mircan takes place on Friday 28 October 2016, on the occasion of a Q&A with the artist and a number of invited experts.
Discursive
18 October 2018–24 January 2019
Propositions #7: Evidentiary Methods
Propositions #7: Evidentiary Methods—the public program in the context of the exhibition Forensic Justice and part of the BAK series Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–2020)—expands upon the notion of forensic justice in a series of lectures, screenings, and moderated conversations that expand upon the notion of “forensic justice” and deepen the understanding of works by, or made in collaboration with, Forensic Architecture.
Lecture
5 January 2015
On the present Zeitgeist and the position of the artist
Maria Hlavajova speaks about the current Zeitgeist and the position of the artist within the framework of the Honger naar radicaliteit. Dood aan de nuance project at De Theaterschool, Amsterdam.
Symposium
7 December 2019
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day public symposium on the civic practice of art institutions, organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 13-21 hrs. The symposium probes the question of how to institute spaces for art in the face of the pressing urgencies of the present.
