Jennifer Snider Cruise
OCAD University, CADN, Alumnus
- Social Engagement, Art Theory, Feminist Cultural Activisms, Relational aesthetics, Internet Culture, Participatory and Relational Arts, and 13 moreCommunity Art, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Conceptual function, Internet & Society, Administration, Public Administration, Public Policy, Architecture and Public Spaces, Performance Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institutional Critique, and Danceedit
CHAPTER ABSTRACT: In this conclusion, I return to the terms of this propositional study and summarize how I have approached the definition of this new conceptual practice and institutional analysis. I take stock of the arenas activated... more
CHAPTER ABSTRACT:
In this conclusion, I return to the terms of this propositional study and summarize how I have approached the definition of this new conceptual practice and institutional analysis. I take stock of the arenas activated by this proposal for artist-run
administration as a performative practice of embodied institutional critique and note those avenues which exceed the scope of this particular study. Re-marking new possibilities for future development, the concluding notes evaluate potential paths for further investigation and analysis.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
In this conclusion, I return to the terms of this propositional study and summarize how I have approached the definition of this new conceptual practice and institutional analysis. I take stock of the arenas activated by this proposal for artist-run
administration as a performative practice of embodied institutional critique and note those avenues which exceed the scope of this particular study. Re-marking new possibilities for future development, the concluding notes evaluate potential paths for further investigation and analysis.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
Research Interests: Art History, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 9 morePerformance Art, Artist Run Inititiatives, Self organisation (Artist Run Inititiatives), Counterculture (Artist Run Inititiatives), Alternative (Artist Run Inititiatives), History of Art, Administration, Artist Run Spaces, and Art and Art History
CHAPTER ABSTRACT: The non-profit nomadic exhibition and event production collective Kunstverein Toronto is profiled and the concept of “performing the context” is articulated as a process of self-reflexive exploration in carrying out... more
CHAPTER ABSTRACT:
The non-profit nomadic exhibition and event production collective Kunstverein Toronto is profiled and the concept of “performing the context” is articulated as a process of self-reflexive exploration in carrying out administrations as organizing practices of hospitality and support. I follow the work on performance and embodied social support by Shannon Jackson, after Judith Butler, and I consider the networked connections between institutions and individuals within the art world. In pointing to bold connections for development that compare and associate administration
to participatory/social art forms, I argue for this crossover by dovetailing Kunstverein Toronto’s application with the theories of “performativity” supported by theorists J. L.Austin and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Asserting that the facilitations and administrations of Kunstverein Toronto are evident in their language and gestural communications, in this chapter I contextualize the role of the Co-Directors as performative and decentering. I also argue that they approach an experimental form of power displacement that uses relationships and recognizes the labour of organizing as an investigative social art metric. Through these interests I argue that the art administrator is both a method and a conceptual touchstone that helps to ascertain the collective sensibility of the institution by fostering an awareness of said institution as a social and cultural context.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
The non-profit nomadic exhibition and event production collective Kunstverein Toronto is profiled and the concept of “performing the context” is articulated as a process of self-reflexive exploration in carrying out administrations as organizing practices of hospitality and support. I follow the work on performance and embodied social support by Shannon Jackson, after Judith Butler, and I consider the networked connections between institutions and individuals within the art world. In pointing to bold connections for development that compare and associate administration
to participatory/social art forms, I argue for this crossover by dovetailing Kunstverein Toronto’s application with the theories of “performativity” supported by theorists J. L.Austin and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Asserting that the facilitations and administrations of Kunstverein Toronto are evident in their language and gestural communications, in this chapter I contextualize the role of the Co-Directors as performative and decentering. I also argue that they approach an experimental form of power displacement that uses relationships and recognizes the labour of organizing as an investigative social art metric. Through these interests I argue that the art administrator is both a method and a conceptual touchstone that helps to ascertain the collective sensibility of the institution by fostering an awareness of said institution as a social and cultural context.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
Research Interests: Art History, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 9 morePerformance Art, Artist Run Inititiatives, Self organisation (Artist Run Inititiatives), Counterculture (Artist Run Inititiatives), Alternative (Artist Run Inititiatives), History of Art, Administration, Artist Run Spaces, and Art and Art History
CHAPTER ABSTRACT: I pay attention to the history of cultural policy development in Canada that may have influenced the performative communication and gestural connections between institutions and individuals within the Canadian... more
CHAPTER ABSTRACT:
I pay attention to the history of cultural policy development in Canada that may have influenced the performative communication and gestural connections between institutions and individuals within the Canadian artist-run art world. Leading to my argument that there are bold connections and comparisons to be made by contextualizing the role of art administration in the artist-run organization, I present policy as an opportunity to explore the origins of artist-run administrative identity within policy development. Drawing connections to the notion of the professionalization of artists and cultural workers, I also consider the emergence and domination of the curator in organizing art practices.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
I pay attention to the history of cultural policy development in Canada that may have influenced the performative communication and gestural connections between institutions and individuals within the Canadian artist-run art world. Leading to my argument that there are bold connections and comparisons to be made by contextualizing the role of art administration in the artist-run organization, I present policy as an opportunity to explore the origins of artist-run administrative identity within policy development. Drawing connections to the notion of the professionalization of artists and cultural workers, I also consider the emergence and domination of the curator in organizing art practices.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
Research Interests: Art History, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 9 morePerformance Art, Artist Run Inititiatives, Self organisation (Artist Run Inititiatives), Counterculture (Artist Run Inititiatives), Alternative (Artist Run Inititiatives), History of Art, Administration, Artist Run Spaces, and Art and Art History
CHAPTER ABSTRACT: I argue for the situating of the artist-run administrator as an agent of what I call “diagnostic organizing;” a focus on generating dialogue on and around an institution’s social activities and expressing its political... more
CHAPTER ABSTRACT:
I argue for the situating of the artist-run administrator as an agent of what I call “diagnostic organizing;” a focus on generating dialogue on and around an institution’s social activities and expressing its political power. As a taxonomic dialogue on institutional power encouraging the blurring of boundaries between the social, political, and historical, practising institutional critique as method is a concept explored via methodological overlaps between artist practices in Canada with European and American artists known for their works of institutional critique. Paying particular attention to the work of artist Andrea Fraser, I discuss the development of her style of institutional critique and self-reflexive performance and writing. Arguing that a reading of her work draws close relationships to an affective reflexive experience of the role of the administrator in the institution, I locate the art administrator in relation to Fraser’s practice to speak to the ways in which administration in small art presentation settings inherently walks a line of negotiation between the freedoms of art making and the procedure and policies of bureaucratic operation.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
I argue for the situating of the artist-run administrator as an agent of what I call “diagnostic organizing;” a focus on generating dialogue on and around an institution’s social activities and expressing its political power. As a taxonomic dialogue on institutional power encouraging the blurring of boundaries between the social, political, and historical, practising institutional critique as method is a concept explored via methodological overlaps between artist practices in Canada with European and American artists known for their works of institutional critique. Paying particular attention to the work of artist Andrea Fraser, I discuss the development of her style of institutional critique and self-reflexive performance and writing. Arguing that a reading of her work draws close relationships to an affective reflexive experience of the role of the administrator in the institution, I locate the art administrator in relation to Fraser’s practice to speak to the ways in which administration in small art presentation settings inherently walks a line of negotiation between the freedoms of art making and the procedure and policies of bureaucratic operation.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
Research Interests: Art History, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 9 morePerformance Art, Artist Run Inititiatives, Self organisation (Artist Run Inititiatives), Counterculture (Artist Run Inititiatives), Alternative (Artist Run Inititiatives), History of Art, Administration, Artist Run Spaces, and Art and Art History
CHAPTER ABSTRACT: I present a review of pertinent literature, scholarly research, and historical profiles that address the subject of the paradox of artistic agency in light of the institutionalization of art and art presentation.... more
CHAPTER ABSTRACT:
I present a review of pertinent literature, scholarly research, and historical profiles that address the subject of the paradox of artistic agency in light of the institutionalization of art and art presentation. Particularly, as this subject pertains to two central movements in artist activities arising in the late 1960s and 1970s — namely the development of artist-run spaces (artist-run centres in Canada) and the emergence of the genre of artistic practice known as institutional critique — this chapter situates both attendant histories before correlating each to the conceptual and social turns in critical art discourses; debates which influence and continue to impact understandings of each movement’s productive arc.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
I present a review of pertinent literature, scholarly research, and historical profiles that address the subject of the paradox of artistic agency in light of the institutionalization of art and art presentation. Particularly, as this subject pertains to two central movements in artist activities arising in the late 1960s and 1970s — namely the development of artist-run spaces (artist-run centres in Canada) and the emergence of the genre of artistic practice known as institutional critique — this chapter situates both attendant histories before correlating each to the conceptual and social turns in critical art discourses; debates which influence and continue to impact understandings of each movement’s productive arc.
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
Research Interests: Art History, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 9 morePerformance Art, Artist Run Inititiatives, Self organisation (Artist Run Inititiatives), Counterculture (Artist Run Inititiatives), Alternative (Artist Run Inititiatives), History of Art, Administration, Artist Run Spaces, and Art and Art History
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations... more
THESIS ABSTRACT: ART ADMINISTRATION AS PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE / ORGANIZING ART AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.
A propositional rethinking of art administration within the artist-run institution, this thesis contributes new conceptualizations of operations of the artist-run centre in Canada. The suggestion is that art administration practiced therein is a specialized embodied expression of the institution as apparatus. Proposing that the Canadian artist-run context is a form of and forum for institutional critique, this analysis argues that the art administrator is a unique practice of mediation in art called “diagnostic organizing;” a negotiative role gesturing toward performative relationships to protocol. Recontextualizing art administration as embodying the interface between art and policy, this study also names “performing the context” as an experimental and critical approach to arts facilitation. The work of artist Andrea Fraser is investigated for her writing and practices of institutional critique, as is the arts presentation project Kunstverein Toronto where Co-Director’s Kari Cwynar and Kara Hamilton’s performative language and gestures communicate their facilitative practices.