New Episode of I is for Institute! With Mari Spirito, Protocinema

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“As you exist for a longer amount of time, the idea is that the organization has to get bigger and bigger…Instead, maybe the ambition could be to be more like mycelium. Instead of getting bigger, we spread out further. And in the spreading out, we nurture each other equally, so that we all grow across a bigger geographic distance, instead of just becoming bigger in one place.” - Mari Spirito

In this latest episode, #marispirito, Executive Director, and Curator of Protocinema, a self-described ambulatory and cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world, discusses the complexities of working across geographies and ruminates on the importance of relationship building in the creation of alternative art ecosystems. Co-hosted by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Senior Curator and Pelle Tracey, ICA Curatorial Intern and doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan.

ABOUT THE PODCAST

This #podcast series functions as a continuation of the concepts explored in I is for Institute, an ongoing project that began in 2016 which currently catalogs over 50 conversations. What initially began as a self-reflexive project and the need to think critically about ICA’s own trajectory and internal structures soon turned to face outward. I is for Institute is a collaborative project that focuses on the many individuals who are working to reimagine the structure of arts institutions. Above all, the “I” in I is for Institute acknowledges that institutions are composed of #people and rooted in places.

Organized by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE’60) Senior Curator; Derek Rigby, Audio/Visual Coordinator; Jill Katz, Director of Marketing & Communications; Ali Mohsen, Digital Content Editor; Olive Martin, Social Media Coordinator; Pelle Tracey, ICA intern and doctoral student at the University of Michigan; and Tausif Noor and Gee Wesley, former Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellows. Music provided by Jason Moran.