How to do Radical Institutionalism?
Friday, July 2, 2021
The online panel discussion presented invitees that lead established cultural institutions, museums, and biennials, and are trying to change into more open, inclusive, emancipatory and transnational bodies—thinking public space and public otherwise. We ask how they translate transformative and decolonial ideas into a program of sustained action to change.
Mixtape 1: Radical Institutionalism
Friday, October 8, 2021
Live launch of our Mixtape 1, in the framework of the ‘Amsterdam Assembly: Letting Go of Having to Speak All the Time’ organised by Framer Framed and Worlding World Cultures. A gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners to discuss decolonisation, pedagogy, racism, and the politics of archiving. With this panel and first mixtape, we inaugurate IMAGINART.
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Practitheorizing
Counterinstitutions
September 9 and 10, 2022
Kassel
The workshop Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions was organized by IMAGINART at documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany. Invitees to the panels include: Ann Stoler, Melani Budianta, Ilenia Caleo, Quinsy Gario, Paul Goodwin, Annie Jael Kwan, Lara Khaldi, Jeroen de Kloet, Wayne Modest, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, farid rakun (ruangrupa), Deborah Thomas, Ming Tiampo, Wet Hole Group (Nikita Kadan, Bogdana Kosmina, Alina Kleytman), and Mi You.
Mixtape 2: Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions
April 16, 2023
Online launch of a series of collective thought exercises that took place during documenta fifteen, where we take lumbung as a starting point for reflecting on how imaginative institutionalism is being experimented with in different parts of the world.
This mixtape is dedicated to our dear former colleague and critical friend, Erick Fowler.
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Dóra Maurer
SUMUS – We Are Together
July 8- October 23, 2023
De Appel, Amsterdam
The exhibition presented archival material and experimental film works by artist Dóra Maurer (1937) some of which she labelled as SUMUS, with the aim to signify the self-financed/DIY and collaborative aspect of her filmmaking. Curated by Eszter Szakács.
On the day of the opening, IMAGINART hosted a practi-theorising session open to all visitors.
eflux Notes: Creative Institutionalism: (Art) Experiments at the Fringes of the State – Imaginart
July 23, 2023
Online launch of our collective e-flux Notes article. How do artists and cultural producers work to reinvent public institutions by way of collective “art” practice? We have identified a set of common strategies these projects use to create institutions that are just and caring, and have organized these notes accordingly. Can we see these experiments as sites of an emerging political imagination that goes beyond institutional innovation?
Prefiguring World(s) through Artistic Practice
December 15 and 16, 2023
Lucha y Siesta, Rome
Inviting artists, curators, activists and scholars to take part in two roundtable discussions, an open lab, and an exhibition, the two day event will look at how the practice of art and art organizing prefigure forms of cohabitation, propose new conceptions of welfare, and activates relations of commoning and empowerment.