Institutional Critique : an anthology of artists’ writings
View Full-Size Image


Institutional Critique : an anthology of artists’ writings



Ask a question about this product

Authorship: Alberro, Alexander; Stimson, Blake (Eds.)
Source: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009
Language: English
Subjects: Institutional Critique, Art movement, Artists’ writings

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations xii
Preface  xvi
Alexander Alberro, Institutions, Critique, and Institutional Critique  2
Blake Stimson, What was Institutional Critique? 20

1. FRAMING
An Introduction to the General Theory of Place (1966)
Wieslaw Borowski, Hanna Ptaszkowska and Mariusz Tchorek,  44

Statement (1967)
Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni    50

Where Art Thou, Sweet Muse? (I’m Hung Up at the Whitney) (1967)
Allan Kaprow       52

What Is a Museum? A Dialogue (1967)
Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson   56

New Commitment (1968)
Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel 62

Demystifying Art (1968)
Julio Le Parc   66

Project for the Experimental Art Series (1968)
Eduardo Favario      72

Project for the Experimental Art Series (1968)
Graciela Carnevale       76

We Must Always Resist the Lures of Complicity (1968)
Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Aldo Bortolotti and et al.   80

A Conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1969 (1969)
Marcel Broodthaers    82

A Call for the Immediate Resignation of All of the Rockefellers from the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (1969)
Guerrilla Art Action Group   86

Statement of Demands (1969)
Art Workers' Coalition  88

Art Workers’ Coalition Open Hearing Presentation (1969)
Gregory Battcock      90

Art Workers’ Coalition Open Hearing Statement (1969)
Jean Toche      94

Communique (1969) Guerrilla Art Action Group 98

The Function of the Museum (1970)
Daniel Buren    102

The Function of the Studio (1971)
Daniel Buren   110

Provisional Remarks (1971)
Hans Haacke   120

Project: Inside / Outside the Museum (1971)
Lea Lublin    130

A Conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1971 (1971)
Marcel Broodthaers    134

Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (1972)
Marcel Broodthaers    138

Cultural Confinement (1972)
Robert Smithson   140

Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition "CARE" (1969)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles     144


September 21–October 12, 1974, Claire Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, California (1974)
Michael Asher  150

The Constituency (1976)
Hans Haacke  156

The Agent (1977)
Hans Haacke  164

2. INSTITUTION OF ART

On Practice (1975)
Mel Ramsden  170

Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience (1979)
Martha Rosler  206

Caution! Alternative Space! (1982)
Group Material    236

 Statement (1983)
Group Material  238

Power Relations within Existing Art Institutions (1983)
Adrian Piper   246

Museums, Managers of Consciousness (1984)
Hans Haacke       276

In and Out of Place (1985)
Andrea Fraser   296

Why Third Text? (1987)
Rasheed Araeen   302

Enlarged from the Catalogue: The Art of Precolumbian Gold, The Jan Mitchell Collection (1990)
Silvia Kolbowski   310

3. INSTITUTIONALIZING

An Artist's Statement (1992)
Andrea Fraser   318

Constructing the Spectacle of Culture in Museums (1992)
Ivan Karp and Fred Wilson  330

A Conversation with Martha Buskirk (1994)
Fred Wilson    350

Symbolic Capital Management, or What to Do with the Good, the True, and the Beautiful (1997)
Hans Haacke  356

The Museum as Muse—Asher Reflects (1999)
Michael Asher and Stephan Pascher   368
Untitled (1999)
Mark Dion 382

Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company (2002)
Maria Eichhorn     386

Who's Afraid of JK? (2005)
John Knight, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Isabelle Graw 396

From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique (2005)
Andrea Fraser   408

4. EXIT STRATEGIES

10 Items of the Covenant (1983)
Laibach    426

Tactical Media (1996)
Critical Art Ensemble  432

Tactics Inside and Out (2004)
Gregg Bordowitz   440

Resymbolizing Machines: Art after Öyvind Fahlström (2004)
Bureau d'Études  452

From the Object to the Concrete Intervention (2005)
WochenKlausur  462

Engaging Ambivalence: Interventions in Engineering Culture (2005)
Institute for Applied Autonomy 470

Jude Finisterra Interviewed (2004)
The Yes Men   478

The Institution of Critique (2006)
Hito Steyerl   486







Online Library

Library Search