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by Anonymous Stranger on Mon Oct 20th, 2003 at 03:37:46 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME

Dear Geert, dear all,
I understand institution in two senses, not only as a specific institution, but also as the system, that institutionalizes, a operating system. Visual arts are,as pop, close to protest and at the same time the symbolic value of the arts can be transformed into cash - this is also worth mentioning. I agree with you, Geert, that the role of curators are in the meantime very often close to the role of an artist, they are hired for specific projects, they have to produce significance and so on, as free lancer they may have not too many rights in respect of the direction an institution takes on a long run. But back to the question, how is the content related to the form, the display of an exhibition. --- Regarding concepts like the trauma or the constitution of the subject by a series of lacks it may be concluded,that a disturbance in the field of vision is related to the insecure position of the subject, and therefore anti- autonomous. So my conclusion is, that a disturbance of an exhibition display is connected with a critical attitude and the traditional exhibition format functions as a pacifier, in a way. This may be said about the documenta 11, where the art objects are placed in a very distincitve, (blow-up)- autonomous presentation and also many of the documentary video material transported well known subtexts about the viewer and the observed etc. More later, Dorothee

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