• item_info: <div id="tw-target-text-container" class="tw-ta-container tw-nfl"> <p class="tw-data-text tw-ta tw-text-medium" lang="en">"Inhabit the institution"</p> <p lang="en">Installation and performance</p> <div class="kp-header" data-ved="0ahUKEwi30bbIvJHcAhVJuhQKHflhAqUQ3z4IjAEoAA"> <div class="kp-hc"> <div class="NFQFxe viOShc LKPcQc mod" data-md="16" data-hveid="141" data-ved="0ahUKEwi30bbIvJHcAhVJuhQKHflhAqUQhygIjQEwFg"> <div class="LKVBDc giUrob uICYRb"> <div class="d1rFIf" role="heading" aria-level="3"> <div class="kno-ecr-pt kno-fb-ctx hGTWQb" data-local-attribute="d3bn" data-ved="0ahUKEwi30bbIvJHcAhVJuhQKHflhAqUQ3B0IlgEoATAW">Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos (Santiago de Chile)</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p lang="en">2017</p> </div>
• description: <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Inhabit the Institution is situated halfway between a public programme of interventions in the exhibition space and an artistic installation. The programme of activations consisted in a daily succession of performative actions carried out by the museum’s “inhabitants": the visitors, staff, agents and others who coexist within the exhibition space of the institution. The question underlying the project was: What can a museum learn from the people who inhabit its spaces? </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">To carry out this project, a series of structures of different shapes and sizes were built. These functioned as elements of an artistic installation and as platforms or stages from which to perform the different actions each day. The exhibition space was thus “inhabited.”</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The timetable of this public programme was coordinated by the department of education/public programmes. It benefited from a public call and from the assistance of the Chilean museum network. During the 45-day project, around 30 activations were carried out with a variety of collectives, including museum staff (workers from the exhibition, education, cleaning, and security departments); and visitors (school and university groups, workers from other museums, and so on.)</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The aim of the project was to parasitize the exhibition space and reclaim it as a space where proposals formulated outside the museum could take place. A space of possibilities where – despite a certain tension with the usual dynamics of the institution – a mechanism of understanding between the museum and its users could be generated.</span></p>