Rachael Rakes
- Executive
Rachael Rakes is a curator, writer, editor, film programmer, and educator. She is the Curator of Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Programmer at Large for Film at Lincoln Center, where she co-curates the annual festival Art of the Real. Recent exhibitions and programs include No Linear Fucking Time (Bak/Utrecht), Practing tactical Solidarities (BAK/Utrecht), Counter-Encounters (Centre Pompidou, Paris), DECODERS/RECORDERS: Steffani Jemison and Samson Young (De Appel/Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam), Relational Capacities (Frame Contemporary, Helsinki), On Watching Men (SAIC, Chicago), Uncontained Energy and Contained Fear (Tabakerlara, San Sebastian), CAMP: In Cameras Res (De Appel), The Health Show II (A.I.R., NYC), In Between: Tacita Dean (Centre Pompidou, Paris). Rakes has taught at Zine Ezkola, The New School, KASK, the New Centre for Research & Practice.and Harvard University. She is the co-editor of the books Toward the not-Yet: Art as Public Practice (BAK/MIT), and Practice Space (De Appel/NAME).