Current and Upcoming Public Events
Goshka Macuga, Non Consensual Act (in progress)
Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
Dec 14 – April 12
Michal Libera, HIT&RUN – Stolen material in music production
Artist talk, BAC
Feb 13, 17.00
Michal Libera, The Tape Never Lies
Artist reading, Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators
Feb 15, 18.00
Agnieszka Polska: The Future Days
Filmscreening Folkets Bio Roxy
March 13, 18.00
Henrik Andersson, SISV – Scandinavian Institute Of Comparative Vandalism
Gotlands Konstmuseum
June 14 – October 5
Current and Upcoming Residencies
Production-in-Residence (PIR) 2014
Warsaw-based music critic, writer, curator Michal Libera (PL) is currently staying for a month at BAC, working on a sound essay.
Artist Judy Radul (CAN) is co-producing a seminar-residency project scheduled for August 2014.
The Site Residency
In February Berlin-based artist Susanne Kriemann stays on Gotland. Her residency will be followed by a working session with writer Maria Barnas.
Research-in-Residence (RIR) 2013-14
This new residency program has been developed within the Case Study: Gotland framework, inviting and hosting longer term research-based projects connected to Gotland.
Our first resident Henrik Andersson (SWE) will present his project “SISV”, where he inventories the large, and until now almost untouched archives of Asger Jorn`s Scandinavian Institute Of Comparative Vandalism (Skandinavisk institut for sammenlignende vandalisme – SISV).
The upcoming exhibition at the Gotlands Konstmuseum will be accompanied by a summer school program.
Highlights of 2013
Production-in-Residence (PIR) 2013
Artist Goshka Macuga (UK)
Macuga’s, Non Consensual Act (in progress), co-produced by BAC and Index, is her first solo exhibition in Sweden, where she presents a first treatment of an ongoing new film project.
With support from IASPIS, The Polish Institute Stockholm and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
The Site Residency
BAC’s new residency was conceptualized by Sebastian Cichocki (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) and co-curated by Livia Paldi (BAC), Galit Eilat (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven). The program has been launched in collaboration with the Polish Institute Stockholm and Goethe-Institut Schweden.
In May 2013 Agnieszka Polska, artist (PL) and Justyna Wasik, writer (PL) came as the first residents.
Production and projects
Agnieszka Polska: The Future Days
The film, which was shot entirely on Gotland, was co-produced by the ACT Art Collection Telekom, BAC, and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, as part of the cooperation project with the biennials of Gothenburg, Liverpool and Mechelen (within the framework of the European Culture Program 2007-2013).
Perpetuum Labs/BAC Part 1: Curating the Political
Co-organized with Perpetuum Mobile, BAC hosted the 3-day event for a professional debate and criticism on curatorial and artistic formats, addressing art and politics.
Context in Flux
BAC was the co-developer of a project organized within Riksutställningar’s new program series Lab13, which consisted of two symposiums: one at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania and one on Gotland.
The Mobile Archive
BAC hosted the Mobile Archive, an international assemblage of over 1000 art videos, documentaries and witness reports compiled by the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, which were made available for the Gotland audience.
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