Screen LibraryHow institutions think : between contemporary art and curatorial discourse /
"Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology-taking its title fro...
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LUMA Foundation ; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College ; The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Feldmeilen, Switzerland : Annandale-on-Hudson, NY : Cambridge, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. 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. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object of inquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology. 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. 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." -- Publisher's description |
| Carrier Form: | 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780262534321 0262534320 |
| Index Number: | N408 |
| CLC: | G261 |
| Call Number: | G261/H847 |
| Contents: |
Institution, invention, possibility / On slow institutions / Dark venues / Death and the stone age: Ugandan art institutions (1941-1967) / Unlearning institution: do as you present (or preach) / Autohistorias: reclaiming our institutions / When the colonizer comes to stay / Revisiting the 'developmental' and reconsidering the 'alternating' / Institution and political community with the dead / The magmas: on institutions and instituting / Structure, subject, art / How institutions think? Institutions do not think, they simply act! / On dispositions and form-making: a conversation / A total education / Come in and make a place for yourself: instituting along lines of self-determination and interdependency / Can an institution speak for a woman? / Practices of negation / The demodernizing possibility / The arched bow of the institution of display / The post-agonistic institution: what after mimesis and critique of the democratic project? / |