ABSTRACT This text analyses the relationship between institutionalism, context and cultural criticism. Its main objective is to identify how universalism has permeated the different waves of Institutional Critique, conditioning the subversive potential conferred to creative practices and locating radical, alternative institutionalism within the narrow geo-cultural landscape of mainstream biennials. Taking as point of departure Cildo Meireles’s participatory public intervention in documenta 11, I consider how representational concerns are privileged vis-à-vis visual practices related to coloniality and difference. From that position, the article argues that only by challenging the assumed universality of the debates on cultural institutionalism will we be able to stress the relevance of critique in addressing cultural policies and non-representational practices. This implies confronting the troublesome relationship between Institutional Critique and modernity from a ‘geographically-informed’ position capable of recognising institutionalism as a heterogeneous body of practices that are being globally transformed.

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制度主义的制度：差异、普遍主义和制度批判的遗产

摘要 本文分析了制度主义、语境和文化批评之间的关系。它的主要目标是确定普遍主义如何渗透到制度批判的不同浪潮中，调节赋予创造性实践的颠覆性潜力，并在主流双年展狭窄的地缘文化景观中定位激进的替代制度主义。以 Cildo Meireles 在第 11 届文献展中的参与性公共干预为出发点，我考虑了与殖民和差异相关的视觉实践相比，再现性问题是如何享有特权的。从那个位置，文章认为，只有通过挑战关于文化制度主义辩论的假定普遍性，我们才能强调批评在解决文化政策和非代表性实践方面的相关性。这意味着要从能够承认制度主义作为正在全球转变的异类实践主体的“地理知情”立场来应对制度批判与现代性之间的麻烦关系。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .