How Institutions Think

How Institutions Think is the collective work of an international interdisciplinary network of academics and practitioners in the arts and curating scene who convened to investigate interchanges between the existing understanding of institutional work and the set of evolving habits, practices, models and discourses animating arts and curating. They address the extent to which institutions and institutional-building is still relevant today and how far the ‘traditional’ institutional formats can go to adapt to the emerging models and progressive inclinations within the arts. The first half of the book focuses on how to ‘think via institutions’ whereas the second half offers a thorough analysis on ‘thinking about institutions’.