"Institutional critique is the act of critiquing an institution as artistic practice, the institution usually being a museum or an art gallery" (Tate, 2016)
Following a recent critique, I decided to research further into institutional critique as this is essentially what I am doing with my practise.
- "In the 1960s the art institution was often perceived as a place of ‘cultural confinement’ and thus something to attack aesthetically, politically and theoretically." (Tate, 2016).
- "During the 1990s it became a fashion for critical discussions to be held by curators and directors within art galleries and museums that centred on this very subject, thereby making the institution not only the problem but also the solution." (Tate, 2016).
It seems that throughout my practise I have adapted this challenging approach to art through the combination of adding the text to accompany my sculpture in the gallery, and the future developments of adding sale and branding sings such as neon signs.
Further reading:
'From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique
Andrea Fraser. Artforum. New York: Sep 2005. Vol. 44, Iss. 1; pg. 278, 8 pgs
Abstract (Summary)
Fraser discusses how the institutional critique turned from dismantling
the institution of art and aimed instead to defend the very institution that the institutionalization of the
avant-garde's self-criticism that had created the potential for an institution of critique. Moving from a substantive understanding of the institution as specific places, organizations, and individuals to a conception of it as a social field, the question of what is inside and what is outside becomes much more complex.
http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Andrea-Fraser_From-the-Critique-of-Institutions-to-an-Institution-of-Critique.pdf
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