Event
The Post Agonistic Institution
Bassam El Baroni
Free, No booking required
Part of Let’s Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
Saturday, 31 March 2018
For the final event of Let’s Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute Chapter Thirteen will be joined by Bassam El Baroni, a curator and researcher from Alexandria, Egypt.
Bassam will present The Post-Agonistic Institution that looks at how Neoliberalism is manufactured through a set of tactics, policies, and strategies that produce subjects bracketed into competition. Inducing labourers to think of themselves, not as political beings working in a society and thus capable of collective forms of organising and solidarity-building but rather as ‘companies of one.’ This has had strong consequences on the democratic project and led to the development of theories that – since the 80s – have been proposing ways of organising and mobilising pluralism anew to push back against this tendency. The talk looks at the influence these theories have in shaping institutional imaginaries and art practices. It analyses them and asks if their deep-seated insistence on the positive role of conflict in pluralist politics is in-sync with our times. Furthermore, it suggests that more work should be done on articulating systems for reasoning and dialogue and looks at this as a possible avenue that curatorial work can be involved with without the ‘internalisation of parliamentarianism’.
Following the talk there will be an open and informal discussion.
This event is supported by SCAN/ Creative Scotland and follows on from attendance at Humans of the Institution, Amsterdam, 25–27 November 2017.
Link http://hoti.uib.no/spesialsider/humans-of-the-institution
