Right now, twenty-eight people are walking. Eleven in Democracy. Eight in Lyric Attention. Four in Sustainability. Three in Decoloniality. Two in Power and Ideology.
"Twelve years ago I sat in a Quaker meeting for the first time and watched seventy people decide whether to sell a building. They reached consent in nineteen minutes. I am thinking about that meeting now." — left at Sociocracy, an hour ago · Democracy walk
Democracy
Lyric Attention
Sustainability
Decoloniality
Power and ideology
Institution is a new kind of art center — half museum, half research lab, half social network. It uses art to decode the contemporary world — climate, democracy, intelligence, intimacy, power — by walking research paths that mix visual art, music, performance, philosophy, biology, and social science.
You don't visit it the way you visit a museum. You walk one of its paths.
Five walks
Democracy
From bee swarms to the choreographed crowd. Decision-making beyond the West, beyond the human.
Lyric Attention
Six contemplative traditions, six centuries apart, doing the same move. Stay here. Stay with this. Do not look past it.
Sustainability
A river with rights, a mushroom in the ruin, a forest that talks underground. The parliament of more-than-human kin.
Decoloniality
A Bengali school under the trees, a Mexican map that recentered the Pacific, a Caribbean painting against the Demoiselles. A century of refusing the imperial frame.
Power and ideology
Goya kept his etchings private. Eisenstein survived Stalin. Longo shows at oligarch museums. Sontag named the camera as aggression. Four centuries of holding the contradiction.
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