
After Institutions
Floating Opera Press
Published in May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
116 pages
978-3-9819108-8-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 their 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
12 color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 17 cm
Width: 12 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-9819108-8-9 (9783981910889)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Karen Archey is curator of contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She is a 2015 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant recipient for short-form writing. Since joining the Stedelijk Museum in April 2017, Archey has organized solo exhibitions by artists Rineke Dijkstra, Stefan Tcherepnin, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Metahaven. She has written numerous catalogue essays and is a contributor to several art publications, including Artforum and Frieze.