AN INSTITUTE IN SITU Elke Van Campenhout Who’s afraid of the Institute? In the whirlwind of changing subsidy policies, and political crisis, the Institute has become a partner to be mistrusted. Paraphrasing Dorothy Parker you could say that the Institute in most contemporary engaged art practices is ‘not one to be tossed aside lightly. It…
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Curating as Environmentalism (2011)
Curating as environ-mentalism ‘to find a frame, a timing or a situation within which suggestions of others can be realized’ tom plischke (1) 1. In this text I would like to focus on a particular form of curatorship: a practice that grew out of (and in opposition to) the ‘new’ style of programming…