Active withdrawals : life and death of institutional critique / edited by Biljana Ciric and Nikita Yingqian Cai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ciric, Biljana, editor.

Cai, Nikita Yingqian, 1978- editor.

Shi dai mei shu guan (Guangzhou Shi, China), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institutional Critique (Art movement)--Congresses.

Institutional Critique (Art movement).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2016.

Summary:

Active Withdrawals is an anthology of essays addressing the institutionalisation of artistic practices and the act of withdrawal-a seeking out of places of contemplation and retreat-that is often adopted in Eastern art. The book critiques the growing desire for museums and galleries to become recognised as places of artistic institutions and exposes concerns surrounding the institutionalisation of artist's work, covering artistic practices across Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, China and South East Asia. Drawing from a seminar that took place in July 2013, the book challenges the institutional structure that has become prominent within the art world and often drives and defines its output. Including writings from some of the world's most prominent curators, including Biljana Ciric, Maria Lind and Lina Dzuverovic, a large focus of this anthology explores issues beyond a Western context and avoids a geographical grouping to the writers' concerns. Instead, the publication is structured in such a way that the voice of each writer resonates throughout, combining to create a thoughtful and significant commentary on a largely neglected topic.

Contents:

The time for mobilization and alliances: a conversation about the current state of European art institutions / Lisa Rosendahl

The general intellect of transversal instituting / Pelin Tan

Charisma and withdrawal: Thai contemporary art / David Teh

Towards self-organization as new-institutionalism in southeast Asia / Alia Swastika

I never promised a an avant-garden a draft for the history of institutional critique in Serbia / Maja Ciric

The paradoxes of autonomy: a site of critique / Nikita Yingqian Cai

The Ginburart: institutional critique in the absence of institutions / Reuben Keehan

The archive as a political act: a curator's thoughts on the significance of small acts in the writing of art histories / Linda Dzuverovic

The construct of the (art) institutions in China and artists' strategies of active withdrawal / Biljana Ciric

In the lives of loves of institutions / Beirut

In the midst of / Maria Lind

Reflexivity and residency programmes / Natasa Petresin-Bachelez

Showing, producing, and educating on a small scale; how great is that? Some notes on project spaces and Kunstvereine / Kathrin Meyer

Institutional critique: the world of the ex-centric / Judy Freya Sibayan

The ordinary as an aesthetic operation / Elena Filipovic

Neues Slowensiches Museum: an essay on institutional critique and the production of institutions / Zdenka Badovinac

Desire and form: transnational art events and artistic positions / Angela Harutyunyan.

Notes:

"This publication is based on the seminar organised between 27 July and 28 in 2013 at the Guangdong Times Museum, titled: Active Withdrawals - Weak Institionalism and the Institutionalization of Art Practice" --Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781910433256

191043325X

OCLC:

956622796