{"id":7879,"date":"2013-06-21T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/06\/21\/the-institution-is\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:56:00","slug":"the-institution-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/the-institution-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The institution is institutionalized…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The institution is institutionalized. Who will be the \u2018institutionalizer\u2019 who re-institutionalizes it? Jokes, which are usually used strategies for breaking the ice, also have the ability to contain certain doses of seriousness. In this case the adulteration of a tongue-twister functions as a preliminary to introduce another change: that of the art institution as the adversary or the antagonist \u2013in what is known as \u201cinstitutional criticism\u201d \u2013 within a debate driven by artists and other external (but endogenous) agents that for a few decades now has been called \u201cnew institutionalism\u201d. That is, the absorption by the institution of the criticism driven against the actual institution and its subsequent propulsion of a self-critical discourse from the inside that has ended up converting the institution into the solution of its own problems. The supposed erosion of the dividing line between the outside and the inside of institutions goes further when the institution not only hasn\u2019t been able to metabolize the criticism(s), so much as has extended its range of action efficiently promoting an interiorising of its structures in this space that once supposed an \u201coutside\u201d or \u201ca beyond\u201d. Now that we are all the institution, thanks to the effective slogan of Andrea Fraser, maybe it would be pertinent to ask how inclusive this \u201ceverybody\u201d is, who is permitted entry and if it\u2019s possible or necessary to begin constructing the opposition of some \u201cothers\u201d. <\/p>\n

With no desire to enter into a debate anchored in a sterile choral monologue, what serves as an example of this \u201cnew institutionalism\u201d is the project, Relaunch<\/a>, with which Ellen Blumenstein takes on the role for the first time of chief curator for the Kunst-werke Institute For Contemporary Art in Berlin. Visually, Relaunch is an exhibition that isn\u2019t an exhibition: it is a catalogue of intentions that extends, like an enigma to be deciphered, through virtually all the spaces that make up the KW. What\u2019s more this time the intermittent obligatory adventurer has a larger terrain for aesthetic jurisdiction, with the opening of spaces and corners that previously the KW didn\u2019t open to the public. That said, for the time being and the opposite of what one might expect, the dilation of the space doesn\u2019t mean a greater number of works or artists within the building. There are hardly any works or art projects in Relaunch. As if a sort of marketing exercise, the project Teasers #1-20 is an institutional advertising campaign that talks to us of the future still to come at KW. A future in which such intentions will be obliged to abandon the former comfort zone inhabited by the discourses \u2013language- before events take charge of determining the contaminating coherence between word and action. <\/p>\n

Passing himself off as the spokesperson of Ellen Blumenstein (referring to her as \u201cEllen\u201d), the Bulgarian artist, Nedko Solakov, fills the walls and rooms of the KW with simple, consciously puerile phrases, that exchange the seriousness and usual condensation of the institutional discourse for the apparent informality and dissemination of the desiderative slogan. Teasers function as a strategy of proximity with which the KW\u2013and with it, Ellen Blumenstein representing the institution through Solakov as a ventriloquist \u2013 proposes to reinvent itself as an art centre and collaterally, as a (semi)public space. <\/p>\n

Admitting the actual tradition of the centre, Relaunch proposes a present with longings for the future in which the imagination of power hides the risks of the power of an imagination mediatised by the institution, even when it’s self-critical. Because if while one of the potentials of art is its alteration of usual ways of thinking and its capacity to provide new forms of relation with the world, there\u2019s always the possibility that all this potential is left \u2013like the words that form the architecture of the discourses – without any effective demonstration that replaces the contingency. Or that any changes that art thinks it reaches within the institution don\u2019t manage to pass through the doors of a space where the hierarchical solemnity already seems to call into question the real volition for change in the schemes of interpersonal relations that arise in art, as much as in the public sphere in general. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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