Taco Hidde Bakker (*1978, The Netherlands)
Lives and works in The Netherlands & New York City
Education
1990-1995 HAVO, Aalten (High school)
1996-1998 Academy of Visual Arts, Kampen
1998-2000 Academy of Visual Arts, Maastricht
2005-2007 MA Photographic Studies, Leiden University
(Internship March-July 2006 at the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden)
Publications (selection)
Book review of Peter Geimer, Bilder aus Versehen: Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen in: Camera Austria Nr. 112, Dec. 2010. (English)
'Re-reading Burgin. Four decades of bridging art and theory.' Book review of Situational Aesthetics, Selected Writings by Victor Burgin (Leuven, 2009) in: Camera Austria Nr. 110, June 2010. (English)
'Once upon a time, in a place far, far away…
The paradoxical third space and the photography of Jaap Scheeren and Babette Kleijn' in: Fw: 9 Off the Wall, Amsterdam 2010. (English & Dutch)
'Anouk Kruithof verkent grenzen' Photoq (Dutch)
Human Conditions, Noorderlicht Catalogue (Hardcover, fullcolor and duotone, 22 x 28 cm, 249 pages, English), Groningen 2009, pp. 57-59.
Book review of Photography and Cinema by David Campany (London, 2008) in: Camera Austria Nr. 107, Sept 2009. (English)
'Reading photographs from the penal colony: On the imperatives of civic spectatorship' in: Camera Austria Nr. 106, June 2009. (English)
'De zee gekaderd' in: Fw: 8 One Weekend, Rotterdam 2008. (Dutch)
'Do it yourself! Publiceren in de speelruimten van de marges' in: Mister Motley #17 KOPIE!, Amsterdam 2008. See also Mister Motley Xtra (Dutch)
'Ancestors return in silver grains: the imaginary homecoming of anthropological photographs' in: Özlem Altin (ed.), The fall occurs inside, A reader on the occasion of her solo exhibition Geometric Portrait, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem 2008.
'Vilém Flusser: De fotografie en de strijd tegen textolatrie' Photoq (Dutch)
'Joachim Schmid en de kunst van het recyclen van fotoafval' Photoq (Dutch)
'Fotoboeken volgens Ed Ruscha: contactvellen en leporello’s' Photoq (Dutch)
Taco Hidde Bakker, Theodora Kotsi, and Qader Shafiq (ed.), Een koud paradijs, Stichting Gast, Nijmegen 2005.
Olivier de Jong, Agnes van der Voorden (ed.) and Taco Hidde Bakker (photography), 80 jaar KU Nijmegen—80 objecten, Nijmegen 2003.
Talks
Interview with Swiss director Villi Hermann on his film From Somewhere to Nowhere, DOKU.ARTS Festival, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, June 13, 2009.
'Going Nowhere: Traveling as Art', CBK, 's Hertogenbosch, December 17, 2008.
Participant in a public debate on archives, museums, and artists w/ Esther Vossen (moderator), Laurence Aëgerter, Katrin Korfmann, Hans Aarsman, Rein Jelle Terpstra, outLINE, Amsterdam, June 8, 2008.
'Raw Meat: Eskimo films from Alaska', O Tannenbaum, Berlin, March 27, 2008.
Network for young curators and photohistorians, Fotonoot, Amsterdam, September 25, 2007.
'The imaginary homecoming of photographs', Media and Imperialism Conference, University of Amsterdam, July 20, 2007.
'The imaginary homecoming of photographs', Global Photographies Conference, Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dublin, June 29, 2007.
Referent of keynote speaker Elizabeth Edwards on the Symposium Artists’ Strategies, Photography and Archives, University of Leiden, April 25, 2006.
Other (selection)
Multiple exhibitions including paintings and/or photographs in Kampen, Maastricht, Aachen, Hoorn, Nijmegen, Arnhem, and Rotterdam (1999-2008)
Co-curator (with Pieter Kock) of Bar Wars, April 23, 2005 at Extrapool, Nijmegen
Performance 'On Ka(sboek)wara' (w/ Pieter Kock), April 9, 2005 at Extrapool, Nijmegen
Playing the drums in beefheart-core improv collective The Hitmachine, with gigs in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany (2003-2006)
Volunteer at artists collective Extrapool, Nijmegen (2002-2007)
Volunteer at Stichting Gast, Nijmegen (2005-2006)