Práticas Instituintes: A Critical Dialogue on Institutional Blindness in the Global South

Key facts

• Enric Puig Punyet is director of the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona.
• The term 'instituent disposition' refers to a formative stage of an institution, before concepts and forms are fixed.
• The book 'Instantánea de una Nueva Instituición' (2023) includes a glossary of 51 terms for self-questioning institutions.
• Masp censored photographs by João Zinclair documenting the MST's National March for Agrarian Reform in the 2022 exhibition 'Histórias Brasileiras'.
• Curator Sandra Benites, the first Indigenous woman on Masp's curatorial team, resigned after the censorship.
• The book 'RETOMADAS – Memória, Debate, Atravessamentos' (2025) was published by Editora Expressão Popular after a crowdfunding campaign.
• Decolonize This Place led campaigns that resulted in the resignation of a Whitney Museum board director.
• The installation 'A História da Classe Trabalhadora' by Depois do Fim da Arte was presented at ArPa art fair in São Paulo in 2025.
• The 330 drawings were sold at R$ 51.83 each, calculated as cost of materials (R$ 5.24) plus unskilled labor (R$ 37.95) plus 20% profit margin.
• The work uses a stamp on the back instead of individual signatures, diluting authorship.
• Dora Longo Bahia coordinated the research group Depois do Fim da Arte at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo.
• The text is published on the celeste website as a suite to the edition 'Crítica Infraestrutural'.