Re-Imagining institutions | Assembly for permacircular museums

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums


[21.04.2020]


An art institution is a place of encounter of subjectivities, of
visibility, and world-making. Its main functions are based on
conservation, accumulation, and energy-intensive practices. This
roundtable considers the concept of the »art footprint« to
deconstruct the museum’s foundation on practices inherited from
ecocidal capitalism, such as temperature control, low-cost
flights, and the white cube. In the spirit of Ivan Illich’s
»Tools for Conviviality«, what strategies could lead to
re-tooling institutions and empowering low carbon communities?


with Diane Drubay (Founder of We Are Museums, Berlin), Hicham
Khalidi (director of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht), farid
rakun (member of ruangrupa, collective artistic director of
documenta 15), Tino Sehgal (artist) and an activation by Mira
Hirtz (performance artist and art mediator, Karlsruhe)