Community & Praxis
Community Portal, the civic praxis program of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, proudly announces our fall 2024 activities—a flow of events, relationships, publications, and field work developed around the needs of, and with, our publics and communities. This long-term research stream slips between actively generating its own content and offering support to existing structures in and outside of BAK. The program is shaped by the pressures that arise when grassroots collectives, autonomous organizations, (loosely) organized teams, and civil society groups require support from an institution and vice versa.
Community Portal conducts applied research—bringing theory closer to practice—on collective forms of organization and labor. It does so always in collaboration: with groups already organized (or wanting to collectivize) for social, cultural, and political advocacies alongside research accomplices who apply their practice and networks to the institution, retooling it from within.
Community Portal gathers around four themes: access/belonging, convened by art historian and cultural worker Alejandro Navarrete with the accompliceship of language justice advocate Jen/Eleana Hofer and disability rights researcher Sandra Lange; circulation, convened by grey-lit undercommoner Clara Balaguer; endurance/affordance, convened by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk; and hospitality, convened by anarcho-organizer, chef, and anthropologist Grace Lostia with the accompliceship of food activist Berend Bombarius.
Community Portal conducts applied research—bringing theory closer to practice—on collective forms of organization and labor. It does so always in collaboration: with groups already organized (or wanting to collectivize) for social, cultural, and political advocacies alongside research accomplices who apply their practice and networks to the institution, retooling it from within.
Community Portal gathers around four themes: access/belonging, convened by art historian and cultural worker Alejandro Navarrete with the accompliceship of language justice advocate Jen/Eleana Hofer and disability rights researcher Sandra Lange; circulation, convened by grey-lit undercommoner Clara Balaguer; endurance/affordance, convened by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk; and hospitality, convened by anarcho-organizer, chef, and anthropologist Grace Lostia with the accompliceship of food activist Berend Bombarius.
