“Art Space”

Call it what it is; it’s a museum.

The form and institutional structure of the museum in all of its manifestations is essentially rooted in histories of capitalism, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Museums dictate value. Today museums present themselves as detached and distanced from those contexts through aesthetic projects using art, publication and architecture. While these are generally productive projects that work to critique, the museum recuses themselves of responsibility for their formal and aesthetic construction. In this piece I have tried to make this interaction between the past, present, and form of the museum visible. In doing so I hope to ground the foundation of the museum (quite literally) in a practice of institutional critique. I have also attempted to make the form of the museum blatant in making people aware of the inherent subjectivity gained in going to a museum and to make them think about the ways in which the subject object relationship is central to the experience of view in the museum setting. This piece is in conversation with “Global Projections” and “World Map.”