After Institutions

by Karen Archey

Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they have assumed the role of institutional arbiter in issues of social justice and accountability. The canon of Institutional Critique has responded to the social embeddedness of art institutions by looking at the inner workings. In "After Institutions", Karen Archey addresses contemporary art's sociopolitical entanglements by expanding the definition of Institutional Critique, looking beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Philosophy

116 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2022

Reviews

[Anaclara · Rating 5 out of 5]

onderweg naar betere instituten voor de kunst! adhv een bredere definitie van institutionele kritiek bespreekt ze verschillende echt interessante kunstenaars jipjip

[Claire Kotsifaki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Care, in this instance, is the rejection of normalized exploitative working practices, the rejection of using others as shortcuts to protect budgets, saying no to bringing collaborators into a project that cannot foster hospitable relations and equitable standards, treating artists with a collaborative spirit.