The claim to artistic autonomy in the early modern period was never absolute. Different frames – from architecture to ideology – have always surrounded artists and shaped the idea of “free expression”. The lecture looked at the last 30 years of experimental institutionalism in Europe with some reference back to institutional critique. It explored how conditions for the production and presentation of art might have changed, largely through the lecturer's own curatorial work. It also related these developments to more theoretical shifts from criticality to decoloniality as key terms that shaped institutional and artistic thinking.
