How institutions think :  between contemporary art and curatorial discourse / 
edited by Paul O'Neill, Lucy Steeds, and Mick Wilson. 
 - 248 pages :  illustrations ;  30 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Institution, invention, possibility /  On slow institutions /  Dark venues /  Death and the stone age: Ugandan art institutions (1941-1967) /  Unlearning institution: do as you present (or preach) /  Autohistorias: reclaiming our institutions /  When the colonizer comes to stay /  Revisiting the 'developmental' and reconsidering the 'alternating' /  Institution and political community with the dead /  The magmas: on institutions and instituting /  Structure, subject, art /  How institutions think? Institutions do not think, they simply act! /  On dispositions and form-making: a conversation /  A total education /  Come in and make a place for yourself: instituting along lines of self-determination and interdependency /  Can an institution speak for a woman? /  Practices of negation /  The demodernizing possibility /  The arched bow of the institution of display /  The post-agonistic institution: what after mimesis and critique of the democratic project? /  Patricia Falguières --  Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez --  Clémentine Deliss --  Moses Serubiri --  Binna Choi and Annette Kraus --  Mélanie Bouteloup --  Pip Day --  Patrick D. Flores --  Mick Wilson --  Simon Sheikh --  Dave Beech --  Marina Gržinić --  Keller Easterling and Andrea Phillips --  Stefano Harney and Fred Moten --  Emily Pethick --  Nikita Yingqian Cai --  Sarah Pierce --  Charles Esche --  Alhena Katsof --  Bassam El Baroni.  Part I: Thinking via institutions --  Part II: Thinking about institutions -- 
<br/><br/> "Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology-taking its title from Mary Douglas's 1986 book, How Institutions Think-reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object of inquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology. Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers, How Institutions Think addresses such questions as whether institution building is still possible, feasible, or desirable; if there are emergent institutional models for progressive art and curatorial research practices; and how we can establish ethical principles and build our institutions accordingly. The first part, "Thinking via Institution," moves from the particular to the general; the second part, "Thinking about Institution," considers broader questions about the nature of institutional frameworks." -- Publisher's description 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262534320 9780262534321 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017027129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art museums--Curatorship<br/>Organizational behavior.<br/>Art, Modern--21st century.<br/>Art and society.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N408  / .H69 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>708