Instituting: Space-making, refusal and organising in the arts and beyond

This edited collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and social organizing today, and seeks to discuss forms and structures that take place inside and outside institutions. Rethinking of collective artistic and social practices through and beyond the “waves of institutional critique” this books discusses instituting as a process in continuous critical dialogue with the surrounding landscape that refuses institutionalisation and structuralisation. In an attempt to rethink instituting in the face of current challenges the texts that comprise this volume explore different forms of instituting and the potential of shared spaces in arts and beyond.
Contributions by Laura Harris, Matthew Goulish, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Kike Espana and Gerald Raunig, Olga Lafazani, Athena Athanasiou, Manuel Callahan, Christos Giovanopoulos and Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Isabell Lorey, Claudia Bernardi and Paolo Do, Andrea Ghelfi, Nina Power, Gal Kirn and Ana Vujanovic, Avery F. Gordon, Sónia Vaz Borges and image series by Kostas Tzimoulis
This book was the final outcome of a collaboration between Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin and EIGHT – critical institute for arts and politics in Athens.