New release: Performing Institutions. Edited by Bernhard Herbordt, Melanie Mohren, Florian Malzacher and Annemarie Matzke
23. January 2015
conceptualised, edited and combined with textual commentaries and archive materials by Herbordt/Mohren
with an introduction by Esther Boldt
Berlin: Alexander 2015
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How can institutions be defined? In a fictive conversation, artists, curators, and scholars discuss which duties institutions fulfil, and which criticism they should be subject to. And: how they could be conceived differently. They refer to examples of architecture, the visual arts, and law, they ask for a tradition of institutional critique in the performing arts, and for a philosophy of potentialities. (publisher)
Book presentation and discussion with the editors: 25 January 2015, 6 pm, Stadttheater Konstanz
Performing Institutions arose from the research group “Art as Research” of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Herbordt/Mohren consists of Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt, both graduated from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen. Together they realise since 2000 interdisciplinary projects on the threshold of the performing arts.
This book has been released with support from the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration“ at the University of Konstanz.