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Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.

Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology-taking its title from Mary Douglas's 1986 book, How Institutions Think-reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology.

Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers,

How Institutions Think Between Contemporary Art

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 24/11/2017
      ISBN13: 9780262534321, 978-0262534321
      ISBN10: 0262534320
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      Book Synopsis
      Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.

      Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology-taking its title from Mary Douglas's 1986 book, How Institutions Think-reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology.

      Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers,

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