What forms an institution? Artists, curators, and scholars discuss what institutions are, which duties they fulfil, which criticism they should be subject to, and how they could be conceived differently. They refer to examples of architecture, the visual arts, and law, and they ask for a tradition of institutional critique in the performing arts, and for a philosophy of potentialities. ‘'Performing Institutions' is a working journal on conditions, objectives, and necessary updates of institutions, compiled from excerpts of the conversation series '‘Performing Institutions’ and combined with scene descriptions and archive materials of the artists and editors Herbordt/Mohren.

With contributions from Annemarie Matzke, Bernhard Herbordt, Emanuel V. Towfigh, Florian Malzacher, Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Iris Dressler, Jan-Philipp Possmann, Jean-Baptiste Joly, Jens Badura, Katja Diefenbach, Knut Ebeling, Marcell Mars, Martin Nachbar, Martina Grohmann, Matthias Warstat, Maximilian Haas, Melanie Mohren, Michl Schmidt, Natascha Siouzouli, Pirkko Husemann, Sandra Umathum, Stefan Apostolou-Hölscher, Steve Valk, Suresh Kumar, Ursula Achternkamp and Vesna Vucovic.

Original Edition
Bilingual de/en (Vorgestellte Institutionen / Performing Institutions)
ca. 240 pp.; ca. 72 pp. coloured pictures; Softcover
ca. 19€; ISBN 978 3 89581 347 4
Published in Januar 2015 in Alexander Verlag Berlin