Floor Plan for an Institution is a durational collaborative project, whereby artists & curators from 5 artist-run spaces have been invited to contribute to the design of a speculative artist-run institution within the Meter Room project space, as a means of collectively imagining an alternative model for what an art institution could be. Floor Plan for an Institution approaches the medium of the exhibition as a space where art and its institutions are imagined and speculated upon, rather than a space where fixed cultural values are represented.
Curators from each artist-run space have been invited to create one of the rooms for the institution, the sum total of which will create an alternative model for how an artist-run institution could be formed and how it might function. The following rooms will be responded to over a 5 month period:
#1. The Reception – Pitt Studio, Division of Labour
#2. The Auditorium – Vinyl Art Space
#3. The Cafe & Bookshop – Movement
#4. The Archive – Down Stairs
#5. The Gallery – Grand Union
The 5 artist-run spaces that have been invited will be hosted away from their usual sites and ways of working, giving them the opportunity to develop an off-site project in the Meter Room project space. Work will remain in-situ at the Meter Room after each exhibition to give a sense of movement between each room of the institution, and as a means of prompting dialogue between each curatorial response to the project.
Floor Plan for an Institution approaches the medium of the exhibition as a space where art and its institutions are imagined and speculated upon, rather than a space where fixed cultural values are represented.
