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BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Pauwstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands

 Learning

24-26 February 2009

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht  

Introduction to the project Former West

Tuesday 24 February, 11.00–12.45 hrs
Seminar

Thursday 26 February, 15.15–17.00 hrs
Introduction to the project Former West

Required reading:
-Okwui Enwezor, ‘Tebitt’s Ghost, Negotiating Culture in Europe Cold war to Post Wall’, in: The Manifesta Decade, eds. Elena Filopovic and BarbaraVanderlinden (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 175–186
-Maria Hlavajova, ‘Towards the Normal: Negotiating the “Former East”’, in: The Manifesta Decade, eds. Elena Filopovic and Barbara Vanderlinden (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 153–167

Suggestions from the archive

Exhibitionary

8 March, 19.00–7 March, 22.00 2024

Yallah Sabaya

Community Portal Hosts… Yallah Sabaya Join us on 8 March 2024 at BAK, Yallah Sabaya is happening again! “Come on ladies, let’s have fun together,” would be a good translation of yallah sabaya. All women of different cultural backgrounds are welcome to dance, chat, and connect with others also through movement and celebration. 8 March 2024, […]

Reading Group

Exhibition

07 March–02 June 2024

Usufructuaries of earth
Chapter one: exhibition

The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans.

Convention