Renzo Martens's Institute for Human Activities Examined in Afterall Essay
T.J. Demos's essay 'Gentrification After Institutional Critique: On Renzo Martens’s Institute for Human Activities' was published in Afterall Journal Issue 40 on August 22, 2015. The essay critiques Martens's Institute for Human Activities, a project that uses art to address economic inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Demos argues that the institute's model of producing chocolate bars to fund local development risks reinforcing the very gentrification and neoliberal structures it claims to oppose. The full text is behind a paywall for subscribers.
Key facts
- Essay by T.J. Demos published in Afterall Journal Issue 40
- Publication date: August 22, 2015
- Focuses on Renzo Martens's Institute for Human Activities
- Institute operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Critiques the project's potential complicity with gentrification
- Full text available only to subscribers
- Part of Afterall Journal's ongoing series on institutional critique
- Related articles include works on Gonzalo Díaz and Inauk S. Gullah
Entities
Artists
- Renzo Martens
- Gonzalo Díaz
- Inauk S. Gullah
Institutions
- Institute for Human Activities
- Afterall
- University of Chicago Press
Locations
- Democratic Republic of Congo
Sources
- Afterall —