Under Construction: Perspectives on Institutional Practice

by Muller, Vanessa Joan

• ISBN13: 9783865601193
• ISBN10: 3865601197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-06
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art. It is divided into five topics: The Problem of Location, The Process of Societal Transformation, Cultural Economies, Curatorial Concepts, and, most ambitiously of all, The Way in Which the Art System Operates. Articles and discussion transcripts include "The Crisis of the Audience," "The Cultural Politics of Institutions," "Smuggling: A Curatorial Model," "The Power and Powerlessness of the Private Collector" and Liam Gillick's "Revised Construction of One."

Table of Contents

The problem of location
Art Sans Site	p. 14
Making public buildings	p. 22
Km[superscript 3]/H	p. 42
Spaces of production	p. 50
Processes of societal transformation
Shrinking cities	p. 62
Revised construction of one	p. 68
The crisis of the audience	p. 76
Cultural economies
Complicity : on the role of art and culture in contemporary city planning	p. 88
Cultural politics : Europe	p. 94
Images unite, issues divide	p. 102
Europe/Euregio	p. 110
Lost in normalisation	p. 118
The cultural politics of institutions	p. 124
Curatorial concepts
"Smuggling" - a curatorial model	p. 132
Objects in thrall : on ethnology, appropriation, and art	p. 136
Kunsthalle as a model	p. 142
Curatorial relationality	p. 152
The way in which the art system operates
A discussion between Nicolaus Schafhauaen and Harald Falckenberg : the power and powerlessness of the private collector	p. 160
Powerless structures	p. 166
Writing about culture : the German feuilletons	p. 186
Public spheres and the functions of progressive art institutions	p. 192
Exhibition artist versus market artist	p. 196
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