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October 7, 2020

Cover image: Andreas Siekmann, from the series "The Big 4ever," 2020, developed for this publication. Design: Sean van den Steenhoven for LeftLoft, Milan.

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Out now: Deserting from the Culture Wars

September 14, 2020

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Tony Cokes
To Live as Equals

September 1, 2020

The BAK 2019/2020 Fellows dreaming of time travel with the particle accelerator at the University Museum, Utrecht, 2019. Photo: Whitney Stark.

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Propositions #12: Waves Breaking Walls, Futures in Movement

August 18, 2020

BAK 2019/2020 Fellows Mijke van der Drift and Joy Mariama Smith convene a semi-public program as part of their research, BAK, Utrecht, 2020. Photo: Tom Janssen.

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Announcing the Post-Academic BAK 2020 Fellows

March 9, 2020

Courtesy European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP)

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The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP)

February 15, 2020

Tony Cokes, Evil.27:Selma, Greene Naftali, New York, 2011. Courtesy of the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. Photo: Gustavo Murillo Fernandez-Valdes.

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To Live as Equals

January 16, 2020

Cover image: Forensic Architecture, Investigation into the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas (still), 2018 (detail). Video. Design: Sean van den Steenhoven for Leftloft, Milan.

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Out now: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

November 21, 2019

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Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise

October 24, 2019

During the training Unforgetting & Reconnecting: Story Mapping with Nancy Jouwe and Denise Valentine, September 2019 at BAK, part of project Trainings for the Not-Yet.

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Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars

September 23, 2019

BAK 2018/2019 Fellows Patricia Kaersenhout and Lukáš Likavčan, The Thread and the Gap, performed during the event Propositions for Non-Fascist Living #8: I Wanna Be Adored (the Non-Fascist Remix), organized by the BAK 2018/2019 Fellows and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, photo: Tom Janssen

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Announcing the Post-Academic BAK 2019/2020 Fellows

September 9, 2019

Jeanne van Heeswijk, Works, Typologies and Capacities. Courtesy Jeanneworks.

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Trainings for the Not-Yet

June 25, 2019

Courtesy Studio Jeanneworks, Rob Godfried, and Fouad Hallak.

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Trainings for the Not-Yet

June 11, 2019

Design: Sean van den Steenhoven for Leftloft, Milan.

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Propositions #8: I Wanna Be Adored (the Non-Fascist Remix)

January 31, 2019

Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto (Campus in Camps), and Pelin Tan, “Autonomous Infrastructure and Stories of Hospitality,” conversation as part of Propositions #1: What We Mean, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, 2017.

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BAK 2019/2020 Fellowship

October 25, 2018

BAK 2018/2019 Fellow Katayoun Arian presents her research trajectory to the other BAK Fellows, BAK team, and students of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Utrecht at the first Fellows Workshop of the 2018/2019 program. Courtesy BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

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Announcing the BAK Post-Academic Program 2018/2019 Fellows

October 9, 2018

The project file for the investigation of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek rapper who was killed by Golden Dawn (September 2013). Courtesy Forensic Architecture.

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Forensic Architecture
Forensic Justice and Propositions #7: Evidentiary Methods

April 24, 2018

Doug Ashford, Bunker 2, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam.

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First Person Plural

March 12, 2018

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Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right

February 28, 2018

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BAK Fellowship 2018/2019

January 18, 2018

Matthijs de Bruijne, Migrant Domestic Workers FNV Demonstration: 100.000 Families Trust Us, 2013. Photo: Matthijs de Bruijne.

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Matthijs de Bruijne
Matthijs de Bruijne: Compromiso Político

November 14, 2017

Studio Jonas Staal and DiEM25, New Unions: DiEM25, Athens, 2017. Yanis Varoufakis lectures in the New Unions: DiEM25, Athens installation in the Sporting Basket Arena, Athens. Photo: Jonas Staal.

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Propositions #2: Assemblism

September 21, 2017

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Propositions #1: What We Mean

June 6, 2017

Design: Kummer & Herrman. Cover: Marion von Osten, spatial arrangement for Atelier Europa: A Small Post-Fordist Drama, 2004. Research and exhibition project, installation view Kunstverein München, Munich. Photo: Dorothee Richter.

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Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists

March 9, 2017

Design: Mevis & Van Deursen. Artwork detail: Július Koller, Question Mark Cultural Situation (U.F.O.), 1992. White latex on ready-made textile. Collection mumok, Vienna. Courtesy of Július Koller Society, Bratislava and mumok, Vienna.

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Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989

February 22, 2017

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To Seminar

November 21, 2016

Taped individual programs with headsets, open classroom, Granada Community School, Belvedere-Tiburon, California. Photo: Rondal Partridge. Source: Robert Propst, High School: The Process and the Place, ed. Ruth Weinstock (New York: Educational Facilities Laboratories, 1972).

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Learning Laboratories

September 12, 2016

Image courtesy of Nicoline van Harskamp.

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Nicoline van Harskamp
Englishes

January 31, 2016

Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Geometry of Fear (still), 2012. Film. Courtesy of the artist and Kalfayan Galleries Athens / Thessaloniki.

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Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)

January 17, 2016

Design: Remco van Bladel. Demonstration in Amude on October 31, 2015, Cezîre Canton, Rojava, Western Kurdistan (Syria). Photo: Jonas Staal.

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New World Summit: Stateless Democracy

September 27, 2015

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Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People): A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

September 5, 2015

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"Art and Labor after the End of Work"

July 30, 2015

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Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares

May 19, 2015

New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy. Design: Remco van Bladel.

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New World Academy Reader #5: Stateless Democracy, realized with Kurdish Women’s Movement

April 20, 2015

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"There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?"

March 26, 2015

Jonas Staal, Anatomy of a Revolution—Rojava, 2015. Classroom for education of the People’s Defense Units (YPG), Rojava, Western Kurdistan (Syria).

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New World Academy exhibition and conference at Centraal Museum, Utrecht

January 31, 2015

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Who is a “People?” Constructions of the “We”: FORMER WEST Public Editorial Meeting at Goldsmiths College, London

January 16, 2015

COP19, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, 2013. Photo: Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.

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Anthropocene Observatory

November 16, 2014

Alice Creischer, In the Stomach of the Predators (still), 2012/2013. Film. Courtesy of KOW, Berlin.

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Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann

August 25, 2014

Indications of the borders of Azawad in the middle of the desert, 2014. Photo: Moussa Ag Assarid.

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New World Embassy: Azawad by Moussa Ag Assarid and Jonas Staal

May 13, 2014

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Other Survivalisms: FORMER WEST public editorial meeting

February 10, 2014

Aernout Mik, Untitled, 2013. Performance in the context of FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects realized by BAK and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, 18–24 March 2013. Photo: Florian Braun.

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Future Vocabularies/Survival/

November 1, 2013

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BAK, basis voor actuele kunst hosts the New World Academy by Jonas Staal

September 23, 2013

Photograph on cover: Daniel Baker, Occupy London, 2012.

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We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

May 12, 2012

Schematic itinerary made by Alexandre Kojève
depicting his travels through the Netherlands in 1946.*

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After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer

February 14, 2012

Cover, Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice.

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Release of Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice and new publication line

January 28, 2012

Christoph Schlingensief, “Ausländer raus—Bitte liebt Österreich”, 2000.
Photo collage: Paul Poet

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Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things

September 29, 2011

Hendrik van den Eijnde, allegory of Europe, 1924, bluestone sculpture from a series located in the main Post Office in Utrecht, slated for closure in fall 2011.
Photo: Johannes Schwartz

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The exhibition Spacecraft Icarus 13

August 15, 2011

Irene Kopelman, “50 Metres Distance or More,” 2010.

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Irene Kopelman, The Molyneux Problem

January 18, 2011

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Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things

September 5, 2010

Runo Lagomarsino & Johan Tirén, “Waiting for the Demonstration at the Wrong Time,” 2003/2007

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Group exhibition Vectors of the Possible

May 18, 2010

Rabih Mroué
Je Veux Voir, 2010
Video still

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Rabih Mroue I, the Undersigned

April 9, 2010

Musée de la danse/Le Garage, Rennes
Design: GUI−Benjamin Gomez

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expo zéro

January 21, 2010

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Lawrence Weiner “Dicht Bij”

December 8, 2009

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New BAK Critical Reader: The Return of Religion and Other Myths

August 28, 2009

Plus valoarea [Surplus Value], 2009
Performance
Super 8, 4:50 min., film still

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Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

December 1, 2008

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The Return of Religion and Other Myths

September 20, 2008

Artur Żmijewski
Repetition, 2005, installation view, collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (photo: Peter Cox).

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Artur Zmijewski

July 12, 2008

Cover image of the latest publication in the BAK Critical Reader Series
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art.

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seeks new Curator

August 29, 2007

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BAK Presents Solo Exhibition of Kutlug Ataman

March 8, 2007

Lucky Day, 2006, film still, Courtesy Gallery Martin Janda, Vienna and gb agency, Paris

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Roman Ondák: The Day After Yesterday

December 7, 2006

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Concerning “Knowledge Production”

September 29, 2006

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Aernout Mik

November 4, 2005

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Concerning War

December 9, 2004

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‘episode 3, Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?

October 29, 2003

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Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts

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