“Dear Andrew,
… I talked to a friend about the various social movements dedicated to dismantling institutions. At the same time, a lot of art and discourse are created in harmony with institutional agendas. In my experience writing for an art publication, it seems that an adversarial position in the vein of institutional critique is encouraged. But it felt like preaching to the choir. It also feels like operating on a logic of scarcity by positioning oneself first and foremost as disenfranchised. My friend said something like we can create tables rather than fight for more seats at the table.I think there's an ease in how you're trying to (dis)engage with legibility and over-explanation (an ease instead of say, a begrudged withdrawal) and we should explore that ease more.”
Image: still from film “Death by Hanging” dir. Nagisa Oshima.