In 2021, Alternate Currents addressed issues surrounding the future of for- and non-profit arts and cultural institutions broadly conceived, their position within the communities that support them, and the shared cultural logic from which colonialism and museums emerged. 

Given All This responds to broad questions posed around institutional critique, arts economies, organizational hierarchies, cultural labor, and museum collections and archives. The essays, discussions, and creative work made in response to those questions and anthologized here shifts away from institutional frameworks and toward an emerging set of shared values that guide how we care for ourselves and each other when faced with institutional failings. 

Given the pandemic, given renewed calls for racial equity and justice, given the accelerated impacts of a changing climate--all this--the collected works in this publication are not offered as “solutions” to institutional failings, but rather as invitations to more critically examine the ways in which our cultural institutions might become a collective commons to question where we’ve been, how we’ve changed, and what the future might hold.

Contributors: Corson Androski, Katie Bettin, Jody Boyer, Allegra Hangen, Lex Jonae, Jared Packard, Ilaamen Pelshaw, Sarah Rowe, Lillian Snortland

Publisher: Amplify Arts

Publish Date: 2021

ISBN: 9798985297201

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 9” x 16”

Price: Sold Out