The BAK Summer School is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that brings together those involved in arts, academic, and activism to collectively think through, learn about, and imagine critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp and influence our dramatically changing times.

Through case studies, storytelling, theory, presentations, discussions, workshops, study groups, and exercises, the BAK Summer School asks about and speaks to art as a space in which radical (re) workings can flourish. Concepts of alternative and collective practice, contemporary constructions of “we”, institutional structuring, potentials of performative collectivity, looming and present fascisms, etc. are discussed so as to imagine what shapes art as otherwise may take, what is needed in such endeavours, and how to think about the contemporary with and through art in order to build these visions and practices.

17072018 | Basis voor Actuele Kunst | NL