The Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS) and LACMA present
Institutional Critique and After
Saturday, May 21, 10:30 am-5 pm
LACMA Bing Theater
Institutional Critique and After is an internationally focused program exploring the history and contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke. A key aim of Institutional Critique was the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries. The movement was redeveloped in the 1980s and after by Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Fred Wilson and others who engaged in more interactive and performative interventions; and has been vigorously reoriented in recent years to address issues such as globalization.
The program will include three panel presentations featuring noted artists, scholars and museum professionals. Beginning with two notable younger scholars who will comment on the geographies and cultural implications of the IC movement, the event will also debate the role of curators and exhibition practices--within the "institution" as well as independent, and examine some of the larger social and political questions raised by the movement and its aftermath.
Discussion will range across histories, theories, diverse locations and different kinds of institutional and alternative space. It will touch on traditional forms of art, but also on installations, performance, new media practices, and cultural activism. Its central questions will turn on the critical potential of art (and institutions) and whether-and if so how-they can stimulate social or political change.
SESSION I: GEOGRAPHIES AND DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Alex Alberro and Isabelle Graw
Allan Sekula, moderator
SESSION II: INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE, INSIDE OUT
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Christiane Paul, Lauri Firstenberg, and Jens Hoffmann
Lynn Zelevansky, moderator
SESSION III: INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE, AFTERMATH
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Ricardo Dominguez and Andrea Fraser
Renée Green, moderator
The event is free and no reservations are required.
For additional information, visit www.lacma.org or call 323-857-6512