Reinterpreting Collections
<p>“Museums, cemeteries!” the Futurists exclaimed at the beginning of the last century. In spite of their debatable chauvinist tendencies, their protest was, together with that of the Dada movement a few years later, a precursor of institutional critique. Nonetheless, their works also ended up in museums. Discourse and interactive projects have taken hold of museums only since the 1960s. New genres such as Fluxus, happenings, performance, and site-specific installations gave artists direct opportunities to criticize the museum from inside. But again, the remains of these artistic actions arrived in numerous museum collections. The once critical voice of the now dead artist has become more or less silent. Vitality is hard to conserve…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter
Editors: Marjatta Hölz
Administrator: Amber Hickey
Contributors: Subhadra Das, Marjatta Hölz, Khadija Carroll La, Alex Schweder La, Jean Hubert Martin, Valentine Meyer, Stella Rollig, Malte Roloff, Viola Rühse, Annette Schemmel, Iris Ströbel
Proofreader: Amber Hickey
Designer: Michel Fernández, Jeannine Herrmann, Linus Hunkeler
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904