The notion of constituencies and the concept of constituent museums employs the L’Internationale confederation from the start, in an attempt to redefine the role of the museums and their perceptions of the public/audiences/users as their constituent parts with regard to both artist and museum workers alike. Museums collaborate with political agitators that use art as a vessel to communicate contested social and historical premises with a visual language that aims at making a structural impact on society. Constituencies are plural; they grow, develop, change, mutate, hybrid, overlap, separate, cluster, recombine and re-align. Constituencies are always in flux, depending on their existence upon their relationships with one another. As such, constituencies are never givens – but always something to be struggled over and negotiated.
