Art in Permacrisis #6: Inte Gloerich and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, December 20, 2024

For the 6th episode of Art in Permacrisis, we talk to Inte Gloerich. Inte is a critical media and technology researcher, and a colleague at the Institute of Network Cultures. She is one of the core people behind the research community MoneyLab. Inte also just finished a PhD on feminist blockchain imaginaries. We discuss blockchain [...]

Art in Permacrisis #5: The Budapest Conference Special (w/ Constant Dullaart)

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 27, 2024

We kick off a new season of Art in Permacrisis with a short special episode. From the 25th until the 26th of October, we were in Budapest for a conference of media artists and researchers called MetaForumX: PermaCrises. One of the contributions to MetaForum was a podcast created by media artist Constant Dullaart. It’s a [...]

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 [...]