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Die Neue Institution. Institutionen als Praxis [de]
DNA #25



Leipzig January, 2024
ISBN: 9783959056656

Width: 15 cm
Length: 23 cm

Language(s): German

Editor
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Bernd Scherer

Author
Gigi Argyropoulou, Maria Hlavajova, Olaf Nicolai, Adania Shibli, Eyal Weizman

Designer
Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner, Markus Dreßen, Lyosha Kritsouk

Cultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now. In many cases, they still refer to a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments—in particular, by new voices from the Global South. Their modes of knowledge production operate within disciplinary bounds that can no longer cope with the Anthropocene’s radical processes of change, and their self-referential paradigms have ceased to reflect social change and the needs of society. Against this backdrop, the book discusses new counter-institutional practices and concepts, examining specific examples that reframe intellectual and pragmatic responses to concrete situations of societal conflict and demonstrate a new connection between social, aesthetic, and academic forms of work based on integrative, multi-perspectival approaches that transcend existing divides.