Abstract Beginning with a brief analysis of what is broadly considered to be the ‘canon’ of institutional critique, this article asks: is there anything ‘contemporary’ about institutional critique? Following the work of Terry Smith and Peter Osborne, by contemporary I mainly refer to the experience of con-tempus, of being with others in time, within increasingly globalised art institutions where the demand of registering disjunctive subject positions – between subjects of the global North and South – is increasingly apparent. While analysing a range of projects, I mainly bring to the fore one work, The Silent University, initiated by Ahmet Ögüt in 2012 and aligned with what has recently been termed the ‘fourth wave’ of institutional critique, or ‘instituent practice’. To my mind, The Silent University offers a productive example of the nexus of contemporaneity, particularly correlative concepts of co-presence and institutional critique. It is an instituent practice founded to contest the individualism of neoliberalism and the divisive effects of globalisation/border politics through explicitly experimental collaborative practices galvanised by the promise of the contemporary ‘we’. It is an instituent practice that attempts to forge an infrastructure to sustain radical contemporaneity. In this article, I seek to trace both the potentialities and limitations of the speculative and empirical dimensions of instituent practice, and how it may catalyse the spirit of contemporaneity – being and working together in time against the teleology of global capital – in the context of failing public institutions (the UNHCR, national governments) and the lack of spaces for critical forms of collectivity.

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什么是当代制度批判？

摘要 本文首先简要分析了被广泛认为是制度批判的“经典”，并提出以下问题：制度批判是否具有“当代性”？继 Terry Smith 和 Peter Osborne 的作品之后，当代我主要指的是在日益全球化的艺术机构中的同时期体验，在这些机构中，需要注册分离的主题位置——在全球北方的主题之间和南——越来越明显。在分析一系列项目时，我主要将一项作品《寂静的大学》放在首位，该作品由 Ahmet Ögüt 于 2012 年发起，并与最近被称为“第四波”制度批判或“制度实践”的浪潮保持一致。在我心里，沉默大学提供了一个富有成效的例子，说明了当代性的联系，特别是共存和制度批判的相关概念。它是一种机构实践，旨在通过当代“我们”的承诺激发的明确实验性合作实践来​​对抗新自由主义的个人主义和全球化/边界政治的分裂影响。它是一种机构实践，试图建立一个基础设施来维持激进的当代性。在这篇文章中，我试图追溯机构实践的投机和经验维度的潜力和局限性，以及它如何催化当代精神——在全球资本的目的论的背景下及时存在和合作——失败的公共机构（难民署，