Reflections on how Institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.
Flores, Marina Grzinic, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Alhena Katsof, Emily Pethick, Sarah Pierce, Moses Serubiri, Simon Sheikh, Mick Wilson.
Contributors include Natasa Petresin Bachelez, Dave Beech, Melanie Bouteloup, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Binna Choi and Annette Kraus, Celine Condorelli, Pip Day, Clementine Deliss, Keller Easterling and Andrea Phillips, Bassam El Baroni, Charles Esche, Patricia Falguieres, Patrick D.
The first part, "Thinking via Institution," moves from the particular to the general; the second part, "Thinking about Institution," considers broader questions about the nature of institutional frameworks.
Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers, How Institutions Think addresses such questions as whether institution building is still possible, feasible, or desirable; if there are emergent institutional models for progressive art and curatorial research practices; and how we can establish ethical principles and build our Institutions accordingly.
They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology.
Contributors reflect upon how Institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us.
This anthology-taking its title from Mary Douglas\'s 1986 book, How Institutions Think-reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating.
Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions.
Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the Institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline.
Reflections on how Institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us
