Instituting: space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond

‘Instituting’ explores “instituting” as a fluid and critical method in curating, art-making, and organising—an ongoing process that shapes and reshapes structures. It examines how infrastructures emerge in moments of rupture, bringing together practices of gathering, fleeing, and inhabiting spaces. Instituting is framed as both situating and transforming, always in dialogue with its surroundings. This book includes articles, discussions, artistic works, and reflections on shared spaces in the arts and beyond. It considers instituting as both an act of making and unmaking—of resisting fixed forms while engaging institutions. By embracing instability, it invites new ways of studying, organising, and imagining spaces in response to contemporary challenges.