The Institution(ing)s: Co-Creating Inclusive and Sustainable European Art Institutions (Institution(ing)s) is a European Cooperation Project that encourages contemporary art and cultural organizations to co-create innovative institutional models that, through experimentation, co-creation, speculation, and advocacy of sustainable futures, contribute to social inclusion, environmental, economic, and artistic transformation. Composed of 8 organizations of different scales, impacts and target audiences, in 7 European countries, the Institution(ing)s represents the diversity of the ecosystem of the cultural sector. It establishes a sustainable cooperation between 1 museum (CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian), 1 konsthall (Tensta konsthall), 1 higher-education institution (Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa), 1 publisher running an art Biennial (Errant Bodies/ The Listening Biennial), 1 local network (tranzit.ro/ Iași), 1 arts-in-residency post-academy (Jan van Eyck Academie), and 2 non-profit art-organizations (MOCA NGO and Museum of Impossible Forms). Each partner performs specific roles in the art sector and responds to shared planetary challenges from each of their situated practices and (economic, social, cultural, political) contexts across the European continent (N, E, S, W). By coming together with differences and commonalities in a sort of an institution without walls, a living organism in constant processes of exchange and transformation of practices, the Institution(ing)s will bring innovative perspectives to respond to cross-cutting challenges and contribute to the strengthening of European citizenship in a project of social equity and sustainability.

Institution(ing)s is born of the idea of instituent practices (Gerald Raunig), defined as “the actualization of the future in a present becoming.” It is the practice of implementing the speculations of next systems dreamers. The Institution(ing)s is a framework, a choreographic score for instituting an emerging social vision. It is a collaborative experiment that aims to cut across silos, disciplines, and fields to support contextualized research, situated practices, and translocal knowledge production as shared resources for the future. It seeks to test and share innovative methodologies both in the public parts as well as in the not so visible, internal practices and policies of art institutions (starting with the consortium); it investigates how long-term collaborations that centre socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working methods can envision an expansive form of kinship and custodial relationships with artists, collaborators, with the human and more-than-human towards imagined futures; and it explores alternatives beyond institutional critique towards a healthier arts' ecosystem.

Governance:

The Institution(ing)s is run by a Board of the Project, comprising of an artistic and scientific committee, and a management committee with representatives of each of the institutions, and the Project Leader.

General Coordinator:

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Steering committee:

Luísa Santos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa and CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian); Ana Fabíola Maurício (Universidade Católica Portuguesa); Peter Hanenberg (Universidade Católica Portuguesa); Benjamin Weil (CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian); Ana Botella (CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian); Hicham Khalidi (Jan van Eyck Academie); Boudewijn Cox (Jan van Eyck Academie); Cecilia Widenheim (Tensta konsthall); Alba Lindblad (Tensta konsthall); Giovanna Esposito Yussif (Museum of Impossible Forms); Yuliia Hnat (MOCA NGO); Olga Balashova (MOCA NGO); Brandon LaBelle (Errant Bodies | Listening Biennial); Livia Pancu (tranzit.ro/ Iași); Florin Bobu (tranzit.ro/ Iași).

Project Leader:

Luísa Santos

Project Management:

Ana Fabíola Maurício

Communication:

Maria Eduarda Duarte

Graphic Design:

vivoeusébio

Website development:

vivóeusébio + webxperience

Typeface:

Acumin Variable

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