Towards an Infrastructure of Humans [electronic resource].

Van Abbemuseum 2019

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Humans can exist without an institution, yet no institution can function without humans. Institutions to a large degree are the people who work in them, but they are also more than just a group of individuals working together. What then does the institutional part of an institution contain? What allows a gathering of people to become more than the sum of all its parts? And in the age of neoliberal self-exploitation, are institutions still operative in the interests of the individuals involved? As is well known, recent decades have transformed the cultural sector. Sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello identified that the culture industry was one of the models for the neoliberal already in 1999, and with its networked economy it has become a frontrunner in developing precarious labour conditions ever since. The freelance artist has been the norm in the sector from the early-twentieth century onwards, and today freelancing and zero-hour contracts dominate all aspects of employment. Like with all things, there is a positive side: in the cultural sector, freelancing does offer greater flexibility and the chance for art and cultural workers to set their own working limits or pursue international careers by working on a portfolio of projects in many different and exciting locations. The downsides, however, are precarious conditions, lack of workers’ rights and protection, fragmented life and work biographies and a lack of longer-term, mutual commitment to people and places. Many cultural workers are in fact forced into flexibility, destined to try to sell their personalities – not as acts of free will, but as a means to survive…
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Anne Szefer Karlsen
Vivian Ziherl
Steven ten Thije
Platform BK
Joram Kraaijeveld
Rune Peitersen
Norwegian Association of Curators
Martin Braathen
Silja Leifsdottir
W.A.G.E.
Lise Soskolne
Rick Heron
Mack McFarland
Florence Cheval
Kris Dittel
Benjamin Fallon
larose s. larose
Taylor Le Melle
Nat Muller
Miriam H. Wistreich
Lesley Young
Önder Özengi
Sabina Sabolović
Jonathan Baumgartner
Agata Cieslak
Sarah Cattin
Jasmin Schaedler
Leeron Tur-Kaspa
Floris Visser
Polly Wright
Thomas Bakker
Iris Bouwmeester
Sharelly Emanuelson
Hanne Gudrun Gulljord
Lian van Schaik
Çelenk Bafra
Ericka Florez
Diewke van den Heuvel
Anna Jensen
Tuğçe Karataş
Alexandra Landré
Susan McAteer
Sarah MacIntyre
Arkadiusz Półtorak
Karolin Tampere
Kirsteen Macdonald
Ben Callaghan
Camilla Crosta
John McDougall
Nikki Kane
Yvonne Billimore
Cicely Farrer
Frances Davis
Gordon Douglas
Katherine Murphy
Marcus Jack
Seonaid Daly
Jennifer Clews
Naoko Mabon
Peter Basma-Lord
Rachel Woodside
Natasha Ginwala
Marieke van Hal
Gilda Axelroud
Torill Østby Haaland
Max Bouwhuis
Erdem Çolak
Charles Esche
Katrien Reist-Van Gelder
Christina Li
Alan Michelson
Sun A Moon
Zeynep Öz
Joanna Warsza
Lara Khaldi
Rachel O’Reilly
Eszter Szakács
Hanns Lennart Wiesner
Rana Anani
Daisuke Kosugi
Luay Al Derazi
Guus van Engelshoven
Cassius Fadlabi
Ella Grace McPherson-Newton
Fadwa Naamna
Michelle Wong
Christiane Berndes
Tatiana Lozano
Jepkorir Rose Kiptum
Hernán Barón
Nell Donkers
Mitchell Esajas
Ina Hagen
Jagna Lewandowska
Karima Boudou Mzouar
Ong Jo-Lene
Petra Ponte
Ahilapalapa Rands
Randi Thommessen
Ana Bigotte Vieira
Natasha Marie Llorens
Nicolas Jones
Natalie Hope O’Donnell
Rodrigo Ghattas
Jasmine Hinks
Maria Jonsson
Michael McLoughlin
Maija Rudovska
Helle Siljeholm
Ana Laura López de la Torre
Gerrie van Noord
Tarona Leonora
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