How Institutions Think
How Institutions Think Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the…
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How Institutions Think
Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. 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.
They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us.