Tiong Ang, René Francisco, Margo Slomp, Marquard Smith


Tiong Ang in samenwerking met Sebastián González de Gortari, Ola Hassanain, Jan Yongdeok Lim, Winston Nanlohy, Andrés Novo, Kristina Országhová, Alejandro Ramírez, Heekyung Ryu en Robert Wittendorp, Sleeper, 2017. Foto: Tom Janssen

Als onderdeel van de tentoonstelling To Seminar organiseert BAK een reeks performances, lezingen en openbare bijeenkomsten waarin gevraagd wordt hoe leren over, met en door middel van kunst een collectieve praktijk kan worden waarin alternatieve realiteiten voor de hedendaagse, in crises verkerende wereld worden bedacht en in de praktijk gebracht.

Op donderdag 6 april 2017 organiseert BAK het seminar Transference, een discussie met Tiong Ang, René Francisco en Marquard Smith, gemodereerd door Margo Slomp. In dit seminar staat het begrip ‘overdracht’ uit de triade instituut/overdracht/tekst centraal uit Roland Barthes’ “Aux Séminaire” (1974) en worden de werken van Tiong Ang en René Francisco geanalyseerd.

15 februari 2023, 10.00-18.00

A series of practical publishing workshops hosted by an active squat and anarchist social center in Amsterdam and organized by the Bookbinding Studio of Sandberg Instituut/Rietveld Academy and Lila Athanasiadou. 

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4 februari 2023, 13.00-18.00

Using the sancocho (a pan-Latin American soup with no fixed recipe) as a tool for research and encounter, Mercado Lourdes (Bogotá, Colombia) will host and organize a series of field meals. These events activate and connect the multiple affects that have resulted from ongoing research with local producers into the biodiversity of the territory.  

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16 december 2022, 15.00-17.00



In all continents, people have built matriarchal cosmologies sustained by complex rituals. In the advent of main modern religions and after centuries of colonizing invasions, the goddesses of antiquity were suppressed by the patriarchal structures that consolidated our era. However, they found ways to speak to us in the language of patterns, melodies, and poems. This workshop uses the voice as a method to reveal the presence of goddesses. 



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27 januari, 18.30–29 januari, 21.00 2023

During these sessions—part of the bASIC aCTIVIST kITCHEN (b.a.k.) program in collaboration with Berend Bombarius, De Voorkamer and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst—we want to collectively explore the topic of setting up community kitchens. Different strategies, tools, methodologies, and contexts are explored to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the practices and theories of community kitchens.

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