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.
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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.
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ArteBA
Happened in April 2019
Buenos Aires
The death of the exhibition... and its afterlife
We tend to forget: exhibitions are just one of many options. Together with Alejandra Aguado, we presented at the Art Basel public program for ArteBA a set of new forms for making art accessible and advocated for art providing precisely what the digital world can’t: collective experience, shared memory, and lasting encounters.
April 13th in Buenos Aires.
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A curator’s job is to give shape to an exhibition by navigating a field of conflicting needs and desires: the public’s, the art’s, the artist’s, and those of the institutions that house them. But curation isn’t just a balancing act. It also often means cutting out or intensifying one of these elements, to tell a different story and find the best possible form for exhibiting an artist’s work.
See exhibitions without art, artist, public, or institution.
For the Parallel Talks, we presented a set of new exhibition formats alongside Alejandra Aguado from the Argentinian independend art space Móvil. The talk, titled “An Exhibition By Any Other Name,” was organized by Art Basel for the ArteBA art fair in Buenos Aires.
Random Institute presented the following projects:
- James Lee Byars 2014 (Switzerland)
- Don‘t Talk to Strangers 2015 (USA, Switzerland)
- All the Lights We Cannot See 2016 (North Korea)
- Tout est bon dans le poisson 2014/18 (Costa Rica, Switzerland)
- Micasa Museum 2014 (Switzerland)
- Things May Get Out of Hand 2014 (France)
- Consider Yourself Invited 2015 (Morocco)
- Disappearing Museums 2015 (Iceland)
- Residencia en la Selva 2017 (Costa Rica)
- No Glory, No Story 2018 (Costa Rica)
Móvil presented the following projects:
- ¡Es la economía, inteligente! Buenos Aires
- La pequeña vida Buenos Aires
- Transtemporal, by Marcela Sinclair Salta
- Presencia, by Donjo Leon Corrientes
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The talk took place on April 13, 2019 at ArteBA in Buenos Aires, and was simultaneously translated in Spanish and English. The entire program can be downloaded here.
First two photos by Max Andrews and Stuart Fallon. Thanks.
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