Nu uit! Network Notion #3 – Plaats vergaan: Politiek en praktijk van atelierontwikkeling

By Roel Griffioen, November 18, 2024

‘Het atelier’ is in de kunstgeschiedenis meermaals doodverklaard – eerst door de opkomst van conceptuele kunst, later door de digitale revolutie. Maar wie naar de hedendaagse kunstpraktijk kijkt, ziet dat kunstenaars en cultuurwerkers hun werkruimtes onverminderd hard nodig hebben. Ook beleidsmakers blijven, om hun eigen redenen, gek op ateliers. Zij zien atelierbeleid als duizenddingendoekje om [...]

Art in Permacrisis on Radio Alhara

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 4, 2024

Starting on the 5th of September, 2024, our podcast Art in Permacrisis will be aired on Radio Alhara every first Thursday of the month between 10:00 am and 11:30 am (Bethlehem time). Radio Alhara is a Palestinian online radio station with an international, multilingual program with music, art, struggle and solidarity. Its identity is shaped [...]

The Mistake of Post-Institutional Art

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 2, 2024

In recent times, conversations I’m having with fellow art workers tend to spiral into fantasies of escaping the art institutions. A far-right government has taken power in the Netherlands a few months ago, and everyone expects a crackdown on counter-hegemonic culture. In anticipation of the blows to come, cultural institutions have already started self-censoring and [...]

Art in Permacrisis #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis Economy

By Candela Cubria-Franco, July 16, 2024

This is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, [...]

Review of ‘After Institutions’ by Karen Archey

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 3, 2024

Every few years, the question reappears: Whatever happened to institutional critique?[1] Is today’s art capable of critiquing the injustices perpetuated within the art system, without becoming entirely subsumed into the system itself? In 2020, Karen Archey, an in-house curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, confronted these questions and curated the exhibition After Institutions, exploring what [...]

Art in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Feminist Art Unions

By Candela Cubria-Franco, July 1, 2024

Institute of Network Cultures · Art in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Art Work This is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice [...]

Stedelijk Museum Fails to Loan Artwork by Ahmet Öğüt to Protect Students in Amsterdam

By the Not Surprised Collective, June 28, 2024

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam refuses to mobilize the artwork Bakunin’s Barricade to protect protesting Amsterdam students. A group of cultural workers, artists, and activists made a loan request in the spirit of the work and in line with contractual agreements. With this statement, we, the collective, share our perspective on the chain of events and [...]

Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI

By Candela Cubria-Franco, June 26, 2024

Institute of Network Cultures · Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI This is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and [...]

The Swamps of Postart: A Report of the 2024 Konteksty Postartistic Congress @ Floating, Berlin

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 18, 2024

‘Non art is more art than art art’, Allan Kaprow claimed in 1972. He concluded: ‘Artists of the world, drop out! You have nothing to lose but your professions.’ Are we ready to move on? From the 6th until the 9th of June 2024, an international group of art workers gathered at Floating Berlin to [...]

Art in Permacrisis #1: Kuba Szreder and the Projectariat

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 14, 2024

This is the first episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, [...]