Microreview: To Make the Road by Walking

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The Artist Job Description, Vijai Maia Patchineelam
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The Artist Job Description, Vijai Maia Patchineelam
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The Artist Job Description, Vijai Maia Patchineelam
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The Artist Job Description, Vijai Maia Patchineelam
Date
2023 June
Subtitle
Daniel Frota de Abreu reviews Vijai Maia Patchineelam, The artist job description, for the employment of the artist as an artist, inside the art institution, published by Track Report (Antwerp), in collaboration with OAZA (Zagreb) and a.pass (Brussels), 2022.
Type
microreview
Author / Publisher
Daniel Frota de Abreu for NewsLibrary
Author Info

Daniel Frota de Abreu is a visual artist whose practice investigates the role of montage and fabulation in the documentation of natural and historical events. His research draws connections between preservation practices, geographical displacements of artifacts and political implications embedded in the production of scientific knowledge.

http://danielfrota.com/

Language

English

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Reviewed Publication

Vijai Maia Patchineelam, The artist job description, for the employment of the artist as an artist, inside the art institution, published by Track Report (Antwerp), in collaboration with OAZA (Zagreb) and a.pass (Brussels), 2022.

When I first read the title of this book at Vijai’s studio in Antwerp last year, I assumed that his PhD research at the Royal Academy of Fines Arts Antwerp, which this publication is the result of, would be a series of protocols or attempts to prescribe a template for artists interested in intervening in art institutions. Later I figured this book deals instead precisely with the assumptions and expectations, sometimes misleading, that both artists and institutions have of each other.

The open field of uncertainties and dialogues that is created when one resists or at least delays the pressure of instrumentalising one’s research seems to be the set condition for the development of an artistic practice that Vijai is interested in. By using the form of a spoken book with transcriptions of his own public artist talks, exchanges with fellow artists and curators, Vijai explores personal case studies. He exposes doubts and learning curves in experiences shared by many artists while navigating the institutional frameworks of art academies and art institutions.