techniques for deconstructing it through their works. This, for example, was the aim of Daniel Buren, Michael Asher and other artists associated with the so-called ‘Institutional Movement’. Today, simplistic antiinstitutionalism has had its time. The issue now is how to reform art museums so that they become more receptive to the changes that have affected contemporary art practice. This also entails not implicitly encouraging audiences to follow Greenberg’s approach to artworks that were not created to be experienced in that way. Art is more than spectacle; artists are better than celebrities. Among other things, spaced is a way of dealing with this issue, not through abstract theorisations but by constantly reviewing and experimenting with the structure of our program. More than anything else, we focus fairly and squarely on the changing role of art in society. This is crucial, because while communities can do without art, although they are certainly poorer without it, art cannot survive if it insulates itself from the forces, conflicts and energies that shape the society in which it is embedded. Marco Marcon is the Artistic Director and Co-founder of International Art Space.
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