Random Institute is a testing ground for new exhibition formats and random ideas.
About
Random Institute is an extension of what a contemporary art institution can be, that is to say, truly unbothered by rules and bureaucracy.
From 2016 until 2019, Random Institute ran the curatorial program of the international contemporary art center Despacio in San José, Costa Rica.
From 2016 until 2019, Random Institute ran the curatorial program of the international contemporary art center Despacio in San José, Costa Rica.
People behind
Random Institute is directed by and brings together curatorial and publishing activities of the co-founders Sandino Scheidegger and Luca Müller.
This site was coded by Sarvesh Dwivedi and Emmanouil Zoumpoulakis and designed by Sandino Scheidegger.
This site was coded by Sarvesh Dwivedi and Emmanouil Zoumpoulakis and designed by Sandino Scheidegger.
Art World Killer Game
Untold Stories
Happened in April 2018
Florence Jung
You may have heard about the philosophers she turned into Israeli secret agents, the clandestine chicken farm hidden in the French countryside, or the two people hired to live the exact same life at opposite ends of the world. Not much evidence of Florence Jung’s works is left behind. They exist merely as records from those who experienced them, as countless individual versions, some ever-expanding and others forever forgotten.
ThoughtsThoughts
A group of art students are hired to imagine their futures as artists and perform them at school over a twenty-four hour period. They are free to choose their roles. Anything else they do must be individually negotiated in the presence of a lawyer, who draws up specific employment agreements for each student. These determine how their performances will take shape, including the size of their workspace, their choice of clothes, working hours, wages, workloads, materials, duties, food, and potential sales. From script to staging and documentation, each student’s performance is thus embodied in a single item: the contract they have signed.
The Students’ Roles:
- Experimental Artist
- Ambitious Painter
- Artist With a Specific Interest in Piglets
- Laser Artist
- At-Home Artist
- Painter With Pink Wig
- Hamed Rashtian
- Hikikomori Student
- Bravo Girl 1
- Artistic Geodynamics Scientist
- Clothed Artist Drawing Naked Model
- Bravo Girl 2
InformationInformation
The book was published on the occasion of the Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Prize, which is awarded every year to a participant of the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel. The jury members in 2017 were Bice Curiger, Mandy Gnägi, Patrick Huber, Mirjam Varadinis and Andreas Vogel. The exhibition took place in April 2018 and was curated by Mirjam Varadinis.
Florence Jung lives in Amsterdam, where she is artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She was awarded the Swiss Performance Prize in 2013, the Swiss Art Award and the Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Prize in 2017.
Colophone:
Concept: Florence Jung, Mirjam Bayerdörfer (coordination)
Texts: Sandino Scheidegger, Mirjam Varadinis
Design: Nicolas Leuba
Publishing house: Edizioni Periferia
ISBN: 978-3-906016-84-9
The book was selected as one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2018.
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