Publications 2006

Art and Its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations

Edited by Nina Möntmann

Art and Its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations

Edited by Nina Möntmann


A comprehensive book on current institutional conditions and the role of institutions within artistic processes. It contains documentation and analysis on the two NIFCA exhibition projects Spaces of Conflict and Opacity: Current Considerations on Art Institutions and the Economy of Desire, as well as eight theoretical essays on emerging and seminal questions on the changes in current institutional realities, models and imaginaries, as well as on the critical and collaborative approaches artists are currently developing towards an institution. Furthermore, there is a roundtable discussion on curating and institutional visions and a manifesto on self-organisation and alternative institutions.

The book covers topics, including: the decline of the welfare state and the changing roles of institutions; the social and physical architecture of art institutions; art and its publics; the art academy as a field of negotiation; the development of institutions towards entertainment and company policies; self-organisation and alternative institutions; institutional desires; radical loyalty as a strategy; the introduction of new models of critique and collaboration in current artistic and institutional practice.

Essays by Beatrice von Bismarck, Mike Bode and Staffan Schmidt, Andrea Fraser, Nanna Kildal, Nina Möntmann, Marita Muukkonen and Chris Evans, Simon Sheikh, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, and Jan Verwoert. Furthermore, a roundtable discussion between Roger M. Buergel, Anselm Franke, Maria Lind, and Nina Möntmann on curating and institutional visions, a manifesto on self-organisation and alternative institutions by Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth, and Jakob Jakobsen, as well as a conversation of Trude Iversen and Tone Hansen with 16Beaver Group.

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing, London
Produced by NIFCA.
Publication date: April 2006
Cover Design: Halvor Bodin
ISBN 1 904772 50 1
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