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ISBN: 9783981910889
Published: May 1, 2022
Publisher: Floating Opera Press
Trim: 4.72 x 6.69 Inches
Pages: 116
After Institutions
Karen Archey
By Karen Archey
Critic’s Essay Series
About the Book
Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously they have assumed the role of institutional arbiter in issues of social justice and accountability. The canon of Institutional Critique has responded to the social embeddedness of art institutions by looking at their inner workings. In After Institutions, Karen Archey addresses contemporary art's sociopolitical entanglements by expanding the definition of Institutional Critique, looking beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.