Playing the Long Game: BAK on Curating the Political

Alice Creischer, In the Stomach of the Predators, 2013-2014, installation view (fragment), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2014. (photography: Tom Janssen). On screen, a wolf, a jackal, a hyena and a bear undertake a symbolic journey, traveling from the arctic island of Spitsbergen, to the grasslands of Benin, and on to Istanbul. Dressed in bulky coats affixed with esoteric accessories, the animals' heads are blank profiles, revealing as much as the faceless and exploitative institutio...