Report of the 3rd Former West Research Congress, Part Two

reviews  05.10.12  Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh

Last Saturday in Utrecht, over the course of almost twelve hours of the dense congress ‘Beyond What Was Contemporary Art Continued’, which was the third Former West Research Congress, various cultural producers, mainly from Europe and North Africa contributed to the discursive process of the undoing of the West.

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Boekenweek: Rabih Mroué
A BAK Critical Reader Series in Artists’ Practice

boeken  19.03.12  Maaike Lauwaert

BAK's eerste publicatie in de serie 'Critical Readers in Artists' Practice' is gewijd aan het werk van Rabih Mroué, de Libanese acteur, muzikant, regisseur, toneelschrijver en beeldend kunstenaar.

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De afrekening
Spacecraft Icarus 13 bij BAK

reviews  19.12.11  Domeniek Ruyters

De projectie is wat bleek, maar de impact blijft enorm. Christina Lucas rekent af met de Europese beschaving.

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On Horizons: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

boeken  27.08.11  Joram Kraaijeveld

Waar is de horizon van het wetende Westen?

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Call the Witness
Interview with Maria Hlavajova

features  27.05.11  Sanneke Huisman

Maria Hlavajova discusses the project Call the Witness, which adresses the situation of the Roma within European culture and society.The project has an exhibition platform in both BAK in Utrecht and in the Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, opening on June 1st.

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Sociaalrealisme op zijn best
Olga Chernysheva in BAK

reviews  27.03.11  Jolien Verlaek

Als een voyeur bespiedt Olga Chernysheva de omgeving van haar geboortestad Moskou, in In the Middle of Things.

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2nd Former West Research Congress in Istanbul

reviews  24.11.10  Önder Özengi

'What can be demanded of a new generation, if its parents never dream at all?' The follow-up of last year's congress focuses on the notion of new horizons in politics and art after 1989 - and speakers were not afraid to ask provocative questions.

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Een klein kamertje met uitzicht
Simon Sheikh over Vectors of the Possible

30/09/10  Gésine Borcherdt

In an exhibition at BAK, curator and art historian Simon Sheikh speculates on the possibilities of life in an age that has moved beyond political chaos. What are the perspectives? Are there new reference points?

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'Rabih! Rabih!'
Rabih Mroué in BAK

reviews  22.07.10  Nat Muller

Utrecht
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
21/05/10 - 01/08/10

Witness, narrator, chronicler, participant and agent. In I, the Undersigned, Rabih Mroué's first solo-exhibition as a visual artist, he questions the role of the artist in the charged context of post-war Lebanon, focusing on the political and historical amnesia.

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