Speaker

You Mi

Host

Liu Tian

Introduction

In recent years, artists’ institutional practices have blossomed. The core curatorial concept of the 15th edition of Documenta was new forms of group building and self-organization. In the West, such experimentation and reorganization is known as ‘infrastructural criticism’, ‘the para-institution’, ‘translocal organising’, ‘alter-institutional and para-institutional organizing’, ‘instituent practices’ and so on. However, has organising become a purpose in itself, a byproduct of self-institutionalizing by artists, curators, and community organizers? Are we entering an era where curatorial practice and organizational development is merging with entrepreneurship? You Mi will discuss the future of institutions and organizations in light of her curatorial and institutional work.