SixtyEight Art Institute is a small research based institute located in central Copenhagen, working on stimulating the synergies between independent artists and curators to challenges new forms of exhibitions making. The institute invites artists and curators from all over the world to work with their peers from the Scandinavian context. The institute is formed to challenges how exhibition making can function as conceptual aesthetically reflexivity on our contemporary societies and politically complexities.
SixtyEight Art Institute would like to use a small presentation booth at Supermarket 2017 for creating a press style release for imagining artistic and curatorial projects between different peers present at the fair. We believe that exhibitions can functions as research positions, critical reflections, or thesis on contemporary mechanisms of representation and systems of power, ethical and social constellations and as spaces for producing other realities. Today, the effort from young art practitioners to initiate exhibitions, demands working over hours - without getting paid, heavily and strict managerial control, negotiating between politicians, states representatives, city councils and selection committees, leaving little time and perhaps liberty, to risk an experimental and radical exhibition making. The historical legacy of radical exhibition making are easily found in the archives of dada, fluxus art and conceptual art, but bear less visible and perceptual traces into our current ‘extended moment’ of contemporary art and its exhibition forms. By proposing a paper based platform for thinking, debating and experimenting with how exhibitions can provoke new refleksion over art's relationship to its public, SixtyEight aim to foster and situate new exhibitions imaginations, between younger independent artists and curators outside of academic, institutional or commercial market structures. The papers are functioning both as a playing, thinking, debating device for exercising the potential of the forms and structures of art.