EXHIBITION

How Institutions Think

LUMA Arles, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Arles, 02/24/2016 - 02/27/2016

Les Forges, Parc des Ateliers, Arles

ABOUT

APT artist Celine Condorelli will participate as a speaker at the four-day symposium "How Institutions Think"

The LUMA Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS) have

"How Institutions Think," a four-day symposium will explore different concepts of institutions and forms of institutional practices. The symposium is organized by the LUMA Foundation, Paul O'Neill and Tom Eccles (CCS Bard) in partnership Mick Wilson (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg); Charles Esche, Alison Green and Lucy Steeds (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London); Simon Sheikh (Department of Art, Goldsmith's, University of London); Maria Mkrtycheva (V Foundation-A-C Moscow); Guus van Engelshoven (Call arts center, Amsterdam).From 24 to 27 February 2016 in Arles, France

February 2016 - In contemporary art and curatorial discourse, the question of the institution occupies a Central place. Recent decades have seen a lot of discussions on institutional critique, the néoinstitutionnalisme, the instituent practices and self-organization. These themes have often been addressed through categories such as power, domination, hierarchy, control, values ​​or discipline. When it comes to addressing the dialectics of anti-institutionalism institutionalized in contemporary art, these debates seem frequently lead to an impasse. However, new art and research institutions continue to be designed, and inaugurated challenged in different ways.

Taking its title from the book How Institutions Think published by Mary Douglas in 1986,

Symposium examines the possibilities and limitations of current formats and practices institutional imaginary, but using a different starting point, ie the knowledge categories, cognitive and social. If issues related to knowledge have been discussed in previous discussions on art institutions, these debates rarely put more emphasis on epistemology social or cognitive operations own forms and institutional processes. The participants will be invited to review the practices, habits, patterns, and transformations speech about the institution and anti-institution in the curatorial field and contemporary art addressing the issues of epistemic practice, cognition and social ties, power and knowledge, and finally the institution as a case study through many disciplines such theory politics, science organization, sociology ...Issues we face: is the creation of institutions still possible, feasible, desirable?

Are there any future institutions models for the emergence of a form progressive art and research practices in curating? How do we build and legitimize us our institutions? How about when the institutions take decisions and these decisions are based on ethical principles? Is it possible to institute ethical principles and build our institutions on this basis? If this is the case, for which we créons- these future institutions? Are institutions identical designs everywhere? The institutions can they be many? How can we think extra-institutionally contreinstitutionnellement ,anti-institutionally, para institutionally? The institution does the condition to think and criticize? Should we go to the institution?

The symposium brings together a multidisciplinary panel of speakers from around the world, which will be invited to reflect on how institutional practices shape the artistic practices,

 curatorial, educational and research institutions, as they shape the world around us. He also aims to provide forms of new and innovative institutional practice. It implements a method of collaborative work, gathering and sharing the different networks and resources to address a central question: how to begin to conceptualize and build institutions / anti-institutions of the future? What models, resources, talents and knowledge needed to build a new and innovative institution dedicated to research, if it is possible to create such an institution?

Our series of symposia aims to develop a network of reflection on the future of the practice curatorial worldwide. This second edition of the series, which is held at a time absolute uncertainty and increased security control, we gather to try to imagine the dialectic of the institution / anti-institution beyond a geopolitical more anachronistic and narrow.

How the institutions believe in the continuity of the 3-day conference entitled "The

What not Curatorial Future Study" What, Conundrum, organized in partnership with the Foundation LUMA, which took place at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in 2014 and tried to analyze the futuristic dimension of curatorial practice, education and research. The next conference in this series, How Institutions Think, is organized by the LUMA Foundation and CCS Bard, in partnership with the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg; The research master

Art: Education Exhibition / Afterall Books: Exhibition Histories; the master of Culture and Critique Commissioner, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London; the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London; Foundation V-A-C Moscow; Call arts center, Amsterdam.

Among the speakers will include Luc Boltanski, Melanie Bouteloup, Jason E. Bowman, Binna Choi, Celine Condorelli, Pip Day, Clementine Deliss, Keller Easterling, Tom Eccles, Bassam El Baroni, Charles Esche, Arnaud Esquerre, Patrick D. Flores, Alison Green, Marina Grzinic, Alhena Katsof, Annette Kraus, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O'Neill, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez Andrea Phillips, Zahia Rahmani, Helena Reckitt, Simon Sheikh, Lucy Steeds, Jeannine Tang and Mick Wilson and many others; Sarah Pierce will offer remote choreography.

The detailed program is available on our websites, and www.bard.edu/ccs www.lumaarles.org. Symposium videos will be posted on the following sites: www.bard.edu/ccs and www.luma-arles.org. A publication will follow the symposium in 2017.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Celine Condorelli

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