Representing the Nation / Compensation Portraits (2008)
International Triennial of the Contemporary Art (ITCA),
National Gallery in Prague
Work is materialized as a bilingual reader, introducing the regional network of state run galleries and museums in the Czech Republic.
Central in this magazine project was individual meetings and conversations with the directors of all the central and regional institutions. Compensation portraits introduce the respective directors with substantial progressive statements, thus introducing 28 existing texts relating to institutional critique placed in the mouth of the directors, translated for the Czech audience.
Representing the Nation / Compensation Portraits apply appropriated texts as readymades, thus displaying discourse formalized as installation in the ITCA exhibition. Representing the Nation / Compensation Portraits was printed in 5000 copies and was distributed free of charge in paper version and as well as downloadable PDF.
Texts used for the Compensation Portraits includes:
- What is the eipcp? An Attempt at Interpretation, Boris Buden, 2007
- Art Without Administration: Radical Art and Critique after the Neo-Avant-Garde, Jonathan Vickery, 2002
- Public Spheres and the Functions of Progressive Art Institutions, Simon Sheikh, 2007
- On Exhibitions and the World at Large, Charles Harrison and Seth Siegelaub, 1969
- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will. Institutional Critique in Serbia and its Lack of Organic References, Stevan Vuković, 2007
- The Rise and Fall of New Institutionalism. Perspectives on a Possible Future, Nina Möntmann, 2007
- A Rising Tide of Contradiction. Museums in the Age of the Expanding Workfare State, Brian Holmes, 2004
- The Post-Yugoslavian Condition of Institutional Critique: An Introduction on Critique as Countercultural Translation, Boris Buden, 2007
- Autonomous Spaces of Deregulation and Critique: Is a Cooperation with Neoliberal Art Institutions Possible?, Branka Ćurčić, 2007
- A Defense of the ‘Conceptual’ Process in Art, Adrian Piper, 1967
- The Lyon Biennial Manifest, Tirdad Zolghadr, 2007
- Cultural Confinement, Robert Smithson, 1972
- Constitutive Effects: the techniques of the curator, Simon Sheikh, 2007
- What is a Museum?, Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson, 1967
- Internalization of the Discourse of Institutional Critique and its Unhappy Consciousness, Suzana Milevska, 2007
- Institutional Critique and the Institution of Critique, Prelom and Gerald Raunig, Prelom magazine, 2008
- The New Europe. Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation, Marius Babias, 2005
- General Scheme of the New Objectivity, Helio Oiticica, 1967
- Criticizing Institutions? The Logic of Institutionalization in the Danish Welfare State, Katya Sander, 2004
- The Neoliberal Institution of Culture and the Critique of Culturalization, Dušan Grlja / Jelena Vesić, Prelom kolektiv, 2007
- To Criticize, Charge for Services Rendered, and Be Thanked, Ana Dević, 2007
- BAK as a Space for Art and Thinking, Policy Document 2009–2012, Maria Hlavajová (Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht), 2009
- On the Question of the Transformation of the Elite in Eastern Europe, Ljubomir Bratić, 2008
- Continental Drift, Activist Research, Geopolitics to Geopoetics, Brian Holmes, 2008
- All the Art That’s Fit to Show, Hans Haacke, 1974
- Attempts to Define a ‘Museum’, Kenneth Hudson, 1999
- Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction, Julian Stallabrass, 2006
- Position and Program, Helio Oiticica, 1966-1967
- Does Art Travel/Thinking Realism, Ekaterina Degot, 2007
Representing the Nation / Compensation Portraits included as well a Special Guest appearance with Rasa Todosijevic 1970s’ project “Edinburgh Statement – Who Profits from Art, and Who Gains From it Honestly?”
Representing the Nation PDF
Edinburgh Statement – Who Profits from Art