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SUPERBASICSSERIES
Fragments of Repair

SUPERBASICSSERIES

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Edited by Kader Attia, Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas

Fragments of Repair (forthcoming early 2024) is the fourth publication in BAK’s publishing series BASICS (2019-ongoing) which revisits fundamental questions and urgencies of our time—the “basics”—and seeks to develop afresh the building blocks of lexicons, tactics, scenarios, and relations that enable action in contemporary conditions.

Today’s entwined crises, from ecological catastrophe to the COVID-19 pandemic to wars across the world, Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza, the protracted, tragic war waged by Russia on Ukraine, the civil war in Sudan, all reveal deep-seated wounds that issue from historical colonialisms and present-day authoritarianisms, economic disparity and growing racial violence, and the abuses inflicted on vulnerable populations and the planet. To address this disquieting chaos, Fragments of Repair, co-conceptualized by artist and curator Kader Attia with curators and researchers Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas, offers a collection of long- and short-form essays, visual essays, and conversations on decolonial repair as both a tool and a tactic of engagement with the current state of the world.

The book, which includes major voices such as that of Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Françoise Vergès, develops Attia’s ongoing inquiry into the possibility of enacting “repair” in the acute context of brokenness, which brings chronic uncertainty, social isolation, exhaustion, loss, and fear into sharper relief. What pathways could repair, rather than return to, past ways? How can we develop collective tools for emancipation and resistance? And, in the face of what is irreparable, how can we meaningfully address wounds and scars, which are deeply tied to European modernity?

Fragments of Repair
Edited by Kader Attia, Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas
Forthcoming January 2024
Published by BAK, basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge MA

Contributors: Norman Ajari; Kader Attia; Souleymane Bachir Diagne; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Maria Hlavajova; Wietske Maas; Catherine Malabou; Olivier Marboeuf; Wayne Modest; Omedi Ochieng; Matteo Pasquinelli and Elena Vogman; Rachael Rakes; David Scott; Rolando Vázquez; Françoise Vergès; and Eyal Weizman.

For pre-orders, please visit the MIT Press website.

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Image: Exhibition Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021, photo: Tom Janssen / Design: Sean van den Steenhoven for Leftloft
Kader Attia, Les Entrelacs de l’Objet
Kader Attia, Les Entrelacs de l’Objet / The Object’s Interlacing, 2020, installatiebeeld 2021, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Kader Attia, Oil and Sugar #2, 2007, vid
Kader Attia, Oil and Sugar #2, 2007, video, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021
Image: Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons
Image: Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015, video installation, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021, photo: Tom Janssen
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Image: Kader Attia, Les Entrelacs de l’Objet / The Object’s Interlacing, 2020, installation with video and objects, installation view, 2021, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, photo: Tom Janssen / Design: Sean van den Steenhoven for Leftloft

Work by Kader Attia at Stadhuisbrug, Utrecht

Kader Attia, Oil and Sugar #2, 2007, ins
Kader Attia, Oil and Sugar #2, 2007, installation in the window of Stadhuisbrug 5, Utrecht, by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021, photo: Tom Janssen
Left: Book cover Vistas of Modernity –
Left: Book cover Vistas of Modernity – Decolonial Aesthesis And The End Of The Contemporary by Rolando Vázquez, 2020 / Right: Françoise Vergès speaking from La Dynamo, Pantin, Paris during the opening of Fragments of Repair, 17 April 2021, image cour
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015,
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015, video installation, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021, photo: Tom Janssen
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Image: Kader Attia, The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body, video, 2018, 48 min., film still / Design: Sean van den Steenhoven
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Kader Attia speaking during the opening program of Fragments of Repair, view from La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Pantin, Paris, 17 April 2021, photo courtesy of La Colonie
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Three-month collective study program La Colonie Nomade, which was hosted by La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues in Paris, from 17 April to 3 July 2021
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015,
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015, video installation, courtesy of the artist, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and Lehmann Maupin, photo: Max Yawney
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015,
Kader Attia, Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015, video installation, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2021, photo: Tom Janssen