Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.
Basecamp
Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries unbuilds and rebuilds cultural infrastructure to collectively confront the urgencies of today.To meet this moment, in which political, social, economic, and climate crises overlap and amplify each other, requires direct action and intervention. Basecamp radically embodies cultural infrastructure in order to leverage the imagining possible for it. Imagining is central to life in which we convene for resilience, survival, renewal and repair. Basecamp offers itself as site and structure towards intimacy, critique, exploration, possibility, and action.
Statement
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
Marking the beginning of a new phase, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht embarks upon a six-month period of thinking and planning.
1 January 2025
30 June 2025

Program
The Open Kitchen FreeShop
The FreeShop is a place where nothing is for sale, and everything is free.
1 January 2025
31 December 2025

Program
Let’s talk about justice!
BIPOC Queer Movie Night
“Nobody is free, until everybody‘s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer
“Nobody is free, until everybody‘s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer
8 March 2025
8 March 2025

Program
PROPAGANDA TRAINING
As we face the devastating forces of the warmongering neoliberals on one hand and the neofascists on the other, we have to ask: how did they propagate a world suited to their interests?
9 March 2025
9 March 2025

Program
Zapatismo Study Group
You are warmly invited to the Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries for a collective reading session with the Zapatismo Study Group.
15 March 2025
15 March 2025












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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