Institutions as Semantic Forms

Examples of Self-Organized Practices in Switzerland

Forfattere

  • Gabriel Flückiger Freelance artist and art researcher

Nøgleord:

Institution, self-organization, Switzerland, Kunsthalle, Imagination

Resumé

With reference to different examples of self-organized Swiss art projects, this article highlights how the ‘institution’—especially Kunsthallen—can be a (literal) infrastructure for running a project. As such, institutions act more as semantic forms. However, this does not mean that they are merely simulated or faked, but rather that these semantic forms serve as vessels for artistic ends of social connections and imagination of production, which ultimately create something concerned with institutional imagination.

Forfatterbiografi

Gabriel Flückiger, Freelance artist and art researcher

Gabriel Flückiger is an artist and art researcher. Studies in art history and social anthropology in Berne and photography and fine arts in Zurich.

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2020-12-11