BORGEN, Maibritt; LUND, Jacob; SLAGER, Henk; VAN DER TUIN, Iris (eds.)
The Contemporary Condition. Challenging Institutionalization: A propositional Toolkit for doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research 

Challenging Institutionalization explores the heterogeneous processes of PhD and postdoc supervision in the arts to formulate shared horizons.

The publication is structured around a series of lectures and conversations that took place at the 2023 Supervising Artistic and Practice-Based Research summer school at BAK (basis voor actuele kunst) in Utrecht. The school brought together students and PhD and postdoc supervisors to reflect on and challenge the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research. Keynote propositions were provided by Barbara Bolt (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne), Geoff Cox (London South Bank University), Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Amsterdam), Andrea Phillips (BxNU Institute), and Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design). Participants engaged in topics around pedagogical formats and generative kinship; queering methodologies, knowledge, and institutional preconditions; archipelagic thinking and decolonial frameworks; criticality and community within institutional preconditions; modes of critical self-reflection and positionality; the interface(s) of "writing" and "practice," and the urgent interfaces of artistic research and art activism in a period of environmental collapse. [publishers’ note]

Contributions by Barbara Bolt, Geoff Cox, Laura Guy, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Maureen de Jager, LEE Wing Ki, Glenn Loughran, Mari Mäkiranta, Andrea Phillips, Alexandra Regan Toland, Mick Wilson. Foreword by Maria Hlavajova.

Published by Sternberg Press, 2024
Design by Dexter Sinister
Essays / Education