The Redacted History of The Institute of Contextualism
Institute of Contextualism
‘The Redacted History of The Institute of Contextualism’ is a book produced by a group of artists creating a quiet social commentary on privacy. This title challenges, immediacy and a desire for constant validation. The anonymous artists collaborate on a text where the entire story, a loop of biographies, family-trees and anecdotes, seem to follow no teleological order, instead spiraling into a web of unmeaning facilitated by sequences of blank black pages, abstracted family photographs and geometric drawings. In doing so, the project consolidates an unimportant view of the self through stories and personal episodes that remain largely unreliable, whilst a playful manipulation of image and text turns found objects into conceptual art.
