NEE TEGEN OORLOG!

Wij van BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht veroordelen de brute militaire invasie van Oekraïne door Vladimir Poetin. We staan in solidariteit met allen die door deze oorlog aan onmenselijke omstandigheden worden onderworpen. Ook zijn we solidair met de anti-oorlogs en pro-democratiebewegingen in Rusland en Belarus, en met de strijd tegen het imperialisme overal ter wereld.

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WHAT WE ARE DOING (more to follow):

1. EMERGENCY BAK FELLOWSHIP
Emergency BAK Fellowship for Ukrainian cultural workers in need, in collaboration with countries neighbouring with Ukraine and in joint efforts with institutions in the Netherlands, including Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

2. BAK STUDIES: ART AS POLITICS, A FUNDRAISER FOR UKRAINE
BAK Studies: Art as Politics, A Fundraiser for Ukraine (22, 24, 29, and 31 March, and 5 April 2022, 18.30–21.00 hrs CET/CEST via Zoom). Further fundraising BAK Studies to be announced soon.

3. PROSPECTIONS, BAK’S ONLINE FORUM FOR TACTICAL SOLIDARITIES
Prospections, BAK’s online forum, provides the ongoing publication of material such as texts, documentation, and live online events that offer context and insights to radical resistance to the war on Ukraine, by means of publishing contributions by Ukrainian culture workers. This is a humble framework to think along with, develop, learn from, and support the work of artists, thinkers, and activists in this time of emergency in Ukraine.

4. LOCAL (UTRECHT AND THE NETHERLANDS-BASED) SOLIDARITY ACTIONS AND EVENTS
BAK actively seeks to collaborate with other institutions in Utrecht and the Netherlands and offers to share our resources (knowledge, space) and network for these collaborations.

One example is the initiative ????rtforUkraine, a nationwide campaign organized by the Dutch cultural field. From Friday 4–Sunday 6 March 2022, entrance to BAK’s exhibition No Linear Fucking Time is on a “pay-what-you-can” basis with all proceeds going toward Giro555| Stichting Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties.

5. HARVESTING RELEVANT LINKS AND INFORMATION ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE
Together with colleagues of Willem de Koning Academy and Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, BAK has set up the collective Ukraine Solidarity Link Farm, a broad-ranging and constantly evolving (non-exhaustive) resource on how to act and inform ourselves from here in the Netherlands. You are invited to contribute any information that seems relevant. This is an open-source list that is being added to, discussed, and edited as we go.

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

Giro 999/Stichting Vluchteling, The Hague


Ukraine Humanitarian Fund


Google doc of verified charities and donation-based NGOs

Real Ways You Can Help Ukraine as a Foreigner



Google doc listing resources, legal and housing support etc, for BIPOC refugees fleeing war
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color refugees

EMERGENCY RESOURCES FOR CULTURAL, ACADEMIC, AND ACTIVIST WORKERS

Kyiv Biennial Emergency Support Initiative

Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund

Artist at Risk Provide Emergency Relocation Resources for Artists and Cultural Workers from Ukraine.
Read more

Resources for Artists and Scholars Forced to Flee Ukraine, Art Margins

Office Ukraine. Shelter for Ukrainian Artists, initiated by tranzit.at coordinates various civil society initiatives and acts as liaison between Austrian institutions and cultural workers from Ukraine.

European Culture of Solidarity: Ukraine Edition, European Cultural Foundation

OPEN LETTERS, STATEMENTS, PETITIONS FROM OTHER CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS/NETWORKS

Cultural Workers Against the Ongoing War in Ukraine
We invite you sign and support their open letter here.

Matter of Art

L’internationale confederation
“Never Again War!” Read their statement here. Sign their petition “Art World: Oppose Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine!” here.

European Alternatives
War in Ukraine. Read what European Alternatives are doing here.

DiEM25
Stop the War in Ukraine. Read more.

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More in this edition
Participants in “Women’s Dialogue wi
Participants in “Women’s Dialogue without Borders,” 2019
24 March 2022
Maidan and (8 Years) After

For Prospections “Standing With Ukraine. Standing With the Oppressed,” feminist, social researcher, and peace activist Nina Potarska has kindly given us permission to republish her 2016 text “Maidan and After: State of the Ukrainian Left,” originally published in n+1 magazine 24, New Age (Winter 2016).

Maria Primachenko, Our Army, Our Protect
Maria Primachenko, Our Army, Our Protectors, 1978
9 March 2022
The Case Against the Russian Federation

Op de vijfde dag van de oorlog, vanuit een suburb in Kyiv, schrijft Oleksiy Radynski een betoog tegen de Russische Federatie.

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8 March 2022
08.03.2022 | Day 13

Het is de dertiende dag van de Putin's invasie. Wetenschapper en kunsthistoricus Asia Bazdyrieva verblijft in Ukraine, ten zuiden van Kyiv, samen met haar familie. Ze heeft elke dag van de oorlog totzover een post gedeeld over haar dagelijks leven. Hier is haar post voor dinsdag 8 maart 2022, Internationale Vrouwendag, gepost met toestemming van de auteur.

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1 March 2022
STAND WITH UKRAINE

Stand With Ukraine: Een Provisorische Leeslijst is een samenstelling van artikelen en interviews waarvan wij denken dat ze relevant zijn en historische context bieden op de aanval op Oekraïnie. Ook geeft het een richtlijn voor hoe wij bij BAK, basis voor actuele kunst en als een breder internationaal links dat zich tegen deze en alle oorlogen verzet, solidariteit kunnen uiten en politieke druk kunnen uitoefenen.

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24 February 2022
NEE TEGEN OORLOG!

Wij van BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht veroordelen de brute militaire invasie van Oekraïne door Vladimir Poetin. We staan in solidariteit met allen die door deze oorlog aan onmenselijke omstandigheden worden onderworpen. Ook zijn we solidair met de anti-oorlogs en pro-democratiebewegingen in Rusland en Belarus, en met de strijd tegen het imperialisme overal ter wereld.

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24 February 2022
Oleksiy Radynski

In het licht van de verwoestende oorlog tegen Oekraïnie herpubliceren we deze video, gemaakt door Oleksiy Radynski (filmmaker en schrijver, Kyiv) in 2017.