BAK is receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support after the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee. Please read them below!
BAK is receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support after the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee. Please read them below!
8 April 2024 | Chapter two, reading groups and online publication | 6 June 2024 | BAK is a crucial basis in the cultural ecosystem of Utrecht! | | Responses to our Solidarity Call Out | 24 July 2024 | Research Interrupted | 26 July 2024 | Research Interrupted: workshops and events | 24 July 2024 | Research Interrupted: works on display |
8 April 2024 | Chapter two, reading groups and online publication | 6 June 2024 | BAK is a crucial basis in the cultural ecosystem of Utrecht! | | Responses to our Solidarity Call Out | 24 July 2024 | Research Interrupted | 26 July 2024 | Research Interrupted: workshops and events | 24 July 2024 | Research Interrupted: works on display |
Statement
BAK is a crucial basis in the cultural ecosystem of Utrecht!
With shock and disbelief we have received the news that Raad voor Cultuur (Council for Culture) has advised the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to stop funding BAK, basis voor actuele kunst for the period 2025–2028.
6 June 2024
Program
Responses to our Solidarity Call Out
After the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee to defund BAK, we are receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support.
Prospections
Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader
The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on Prospections is a reader that undergirds the project as an usufructuary of knowledges, turning the research into a collective research and publishing resource.
7 April 2024
Prospections
Improvement
This chapter, “Improvement,” from legal scholar Brenna Bhandar’s Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (2018) is one of the readings for the Amman reading group convened by artist-led research group Bahaleen involving locally-invited artists and researchers, as part of Usufructuaries of earth chapter two reading groups and slow-growing reader.
20 May 2024
Prospections
Micro-Resistances
Originally published in Kohl Journal, this interview is between Samanta Arango Orozco, a member of Grupo Semillas, and the artist Marwa Arsanios, who is co-convening with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst the multi-chaptered project Usufructuaries of earth until 2 June, 2024.
7 April 2024
Prospections
22 April 2024
Prospections
21 May 2024
Prospections
8 April 2024
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht is a base for art, theory, and social action. BAK is committed to the notion of art as a public sphere and a political space, and provides a critical platform for aesthetico-political experiments with and through art. BAK brings together artists, thinkers, and other members of the precarious classes to imagine and enact transformative ways of being together otherwise.
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