Andrea Fraser on Institutional Critique

The following quote sums up how I feel about art, and the blurring of art’s lines, especially in my critical defense of relational practice for tinygrants:

“[Michael] Asher took Duchamp one step further. Art is not art because it is signed by an artist or shown in a museum or any other ‘institutional’ site. Art is art when it exists for discourses and practices that recognize it as art, value and evaluate it as art, and consume it as art, whether as object, gesture, representation or only idea.”

Andrea Fraser, “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique,” Artforum, September 2005.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, filed under Theory and tagged andrea fraser, duchamp, institutional critique, michael asher. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.