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Fictions, Alternative Structures, and Mock-Institutions

This session's theme «how socially engaged artists have used the guise or actual form of organizations and institutions such as churches, corporations, banks, government offices, and other social units as the very media of their work», brought up some cases that  seem framed in civic social and political intervention rather than in art.

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One of those cases was the «Yes Men»- documentary The Yes Men Fix the World -intervention to raise awareness for big corporations responsible for massive disasters, such as Union Carbide and the Bhopal catastrophe or the Exxon Valdez  oil spill.

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One of the guests of this week was RUANGRUPAhttps://youtu.be/NAqI9Zgcigg -  a contemporary art organization founded in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. As a nonprofit organization, it works to advance art ideas in urban context and the broad scope of culture through exhibitions, festivals, art laboratory, workshops, researches and book, magazine, and online journal publications - http://ruangrupa.org/15/about-ruru/

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