WERE IT AS IF
Beyond An Institution That Is
ed. by Bik van der Pol and Defne Ayas ; with contr. by Peter Osborne, Doreen Mende, Ana Texeira Pinto [et al.]

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Author(s)

Peter Osborne, Doreen Mende, Ana Texeira Pinto, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Bik van der Pol, Defne Ayas

Publication

Rotterdam : Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2017

Scope

260 Pages, illustrated, 29.5 cm.

ISBN

9789491435492

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Whom does a contemporary institute like Witte de With belong to? How are its stories told and untold? And could a staging of its exhibition history through trace, remains and scars constitute an act of resistance against the tide of accumulation. This publication follows WERE IT AS IF by Bik van der Pol as a case study and much more. Many-voiced, it enlists the power of fragments as points of provocation to engage with methodologies of the contemporary. Publication follows the same named exhibition by Bik van der Pol at Witte de With, May 27 to Aug 21 2016.

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Person as subject

Bik Van der Pol

Keywords

art spaces

Location

Cabinet 12 - 2: Kunstcentra ; Nederland

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