Instituting space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond

This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures. Engaging with ongoing questions of possible infrastructures in situations of brokenness this volume brings together practices, ways of being together, of both fleeing and inhabiting spaces. In this edition, instituting is proposed as a process of situating and making otherwise in a continuous critical dialogue with the surrounding landscape. As the painful necessity of making vulnerable spaces and forms that are always in relation to other practices, structures, and encounters. This volume comprises articles, discussions, extracts, dialogues, analyses of shared spaces, artistic works, and theoretical reflections that seek to explore different forms of instituting and the potential of shared spaces in arts and beyond. In an attempt to rethink instituting in the face of current challenges through and beyond specific practices, the texts that comprise this book offer experiences, practices, reflections, and constellations on how instituting might function as simultaneously a practice of situating and yet refusing, place-making and fleeing, organizing and withdrawing, tearing apart and starting anew, locating and dislocating while being in and with the landscape. Instituting as this process that refuses to settle into one structure, one form, resisting institutionalisation while taking place inside as well as outside of institutions. Instituting as this evolving practice of making and withdrawing, using and deforming that repeatedly points towards future forms of study.