the tender institute (2012)

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…

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…