The London iteration of Door Between Either and Or will look at the legacy of institutional critique in relation to contemporary critical artistic and organisational practices.

Speakers: Irit Rogoff, Gerry Bibby, David Dibosa, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Bart van der Heide

Initiated by Kunstverein Munich, Door Between Either and Or takes its name from a door built in Marcel Duchamp’s apartment that opens one doorway while closing another. As such, this particular door suggests alternative passage from inside to outside, or visa versa, without granting or blocking entry.

It is under the auspices of this visual metaphor that the project considers a creative economy in which contradictions are usually self-generated, and where contemporary practices roam across different formats and disciplines.

Institutional critique has been instrumental in the formation of a self-awareness from artists toward their own practices and artistic positions, as well as in the development of more self-reflexive organisational models.

Using The Showroom’s work as a starting point, the event will explore the relations and tensions between artists and organisations, looking at how and where criticality is located and performed, internalised and externalised.