I is for Institute ICA

In this episode, Mari Spirito, Executive Director, and Curator of Protocinema, a self-described ambulatory and cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world, discusses the complexities of working across geographies and ruminates on the importance of relationship building in the creation of alternative art ecosystems. Co-hosted by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Senior Curator and Pelle Tracey, ICA Curatorial Intern and do...

To commemorate the 50th anniversaries of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and The Kitchen, Rebecca Cleman, EAI’s Director, and Alison Burstein, Curator at The Kitchen, reflect on their shared organizational histories in this live recorded event (at The Kitchen in May 2022) to celebrate the launch of the publication Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. They discuss an alternative arts ecology and how it informs their institutional roles in the present. Moderated by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber ...

In this episode, Alex Klein, ICA's Dorothy and Steven R. Weber CHE '60 curator, is joined by James E. Britt Jr., former DAJ Director of Public Engagement at ICA, in conversation with Ken Lum and Paul M. Farber, about their work with and experiences co-founding Monument Lab–an organization based in Philadelphia that seeks to shine light on and destabilize the systems of power embedded within our monument landscape. They share their insights on how organizations can reframe the way they work wi...

In this episode our guests Lulani Arquette, President and CEO of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF), and Flint Jamison, a co-founder and Board Chair of Yale Union (a non-profit contemporary art center), both in Portland, Oregon, recount Yale Union’s decision to dissolve as an organization and to transfer the building and land over to the NACF. Arquette and Jamison reflect on the complexities and new possibilities created by this radical action with host Alex Klein, Dorothy and Ste...

What’s in a name? One of the core questions at the center of I is for Institute is explored this week in the second episode out today. Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Director of the Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam and host, Alex Klein, ICA’s Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE '60) provide background and transparency around the internal decision process and external pressures that led to the renaming of the organization formerly known as the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art to Kunstinstitu...