In The Vortex of Institutional Lives

Following from a series of conversations that have been taking placesporadically between us1 in the past years, the current contributionserves as another opportunity to address ways of living multiple institu-tional lives. In our respective contexts, these pertain to different types ofinstitutions, ranging from art school/academy, to university, to art orcultural organization/collective. Here we explore ways of traversing theboundaries and frictions between radical classroom practices and theinstitutional processes and frameworks that we speak and act withinand against in the context of European higher arts education; all theseenvironments are deeply entrenched in coloniality.