Full Description
This book reimagines what art institutions might become through the lens of three permaculture design principles—observe and interact, obtain a yield, and use and value diversity.
Structured in three parts, the book moves between theory, case studies, and in-depth conversations with artists, curators, and collectives who are already reshaping institutional practices from within. Part One, Observe and interact: transecting current multiple crises in art institutions, examines the limitations of European funding frameworks and their effects on institutional behaviour. Part Two, Obtain a yield: networks of relationships, resources, and practices, looks at how institutions might cultivate forms of reciprocity and resilience that extend beyond economic value. Part Three, Use and value diversity: imagi(ni)ng alternative narratives and futures, embraces diversity and multiplicity as conditions for institutional renewal.
Rather than providing conclusions, this book invites readers to imagine and co-create the art institutions of the future—fluid, diverse, and deeply intertwined with the ecosystems in which they exist. It will appeal to scholars and upper-level students of cultural studies; social change; cultural management and policy; gender studies; race and racism; and ecology and environment studies.
Contents
Introduction: situating permacultures in art institutions
Part 1. Observe and interact: transecting current multiple crises in art institutions
1. Observe and interact: missing the inter- and trans- sections in Europese language(s)
2. Cracks in the structure(s)
3. Net-ecologies: in conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti
4. Situated practices: in conversation with Rita Ouedraogo
Part 2. Obtain a yield: networks of relationships, resources, and practices
5. Obtain a yield: the hospitable art institution(s) and the guest(s)/parasite(s)
6. Cultures of hospitality in cultural disappearance: from bitter towards sweet via gestures of enchantment in Mirna Bamieh's artistic practice
7. Practicing commoning: in conversation with Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo B. Camacho
8. A garden as a multispecies archive: in conversation with Giulia Belinnetti
Part 3. Use and value diversity: imagi(ni)ng alternative narratives and futures
9. Use and value diversity: Planetary-Plotting (with) Art Institutions
10. Land and soil as tools for resistance and imagination: a creole garden in the 60th Venice Biennale
11. Plurality of unknown futures: in conversation with The Third Thing (Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov)
12. Seminarium: in conversation with Ana Rito
Index
