Lecture:
Laurence Rassel, cultural worker
Moderation: Nora Sternfeld, Professor for Curating and Mediating Art, Aalto University
Helsinki and Co-Director /ecm, Wien
Let's stop or let's begin with the dual nature of
the word institution. On the one hand, its creative movement, proper to institute, to found, to establish, is put forward
by the present participle of the verb, which names the movement: it is the instituting. On the other hand, the past participle
of the same verb comes to designate the result of a creative movement. The instituted is what has crystallized, frozen, established.
Alienation occurs when the instituted takes precedence over the institution/instituting. Can hospitality, feminism, conversation,
together with open source principles be terms of engagement, terms of dialogue of back-and-forth exchanges and transformations
with/in the institution?
I will share stories, experiences, questions and practices as I was/am looking for a collective
engagement, a collective experience, to reach something like a common understanding : institutions matter as spaces of encounter,
creativity, possibility, risk.
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Stubenring 3, 1010 Wien, Seminarraum 2
Eintritt frei
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