Mixtape No. 2 - Practitheorising Counterinstitutions

In the workshop, invitees alternatingly adopt the roles of Storytellers, Theoreticians, and Harvesters. They rotate through these distinct positions over a series of panels. These rotations and movements reflect our methodology within IMAGINART, where we are very conscious of the mutable, relational quality of positionalities and the importance of recognising this fact. More importantly, by inviting participants to shift between modes of engagement, we acknowledge that practice is produced and reflected upon at the same time, and that theory emerges from and exists in collective practice. This is the basis for our hopeful, practical theorisation of yet-to-be institutional frameworks.

By combining practice with theory and reframing the latter as compost to fertilise crops from which to harvest institutional imaginaries, we seek to create the conditions for re-thinking the im/possible institutions we want to inhabit. In the following, the moderators of the group present summaries on the results of each panel. These text are accompanied by artworks by artists Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba and Diana Cantarey who visually map and conceptualise the ideas our invitees shared with us.

The invitees to the panels were: Ann Stoler, Melani Budianta, Ilenia Caleo, Quinsy Gario, Paul Goodwin, Annie Jael Kwan, Lara Khaldi, Jeroen de Kloet, Wayne Modest, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, farid rakun (ruangrupa), Deborah Thomas, Ming Tiampo, Wet Hole Group (Nikita Kadan, Bogdana Kosmina, Alina Kleytman), and Mi You.