"But just as art cannot exist outside the field of art, we cannot exist outside the field of art, at..."

“But just as art cannot exist outside the field of art, we cannot exist outside the field of art, at least not as artists, critics, curators, etc. And what we do outside the field, to the extent that it remains outside, can have no effect within it. So if there is no outside for us, it is not because the institution is perfectly closed, or exists as an apparatus in a ‘totally administered society,’ or has grown all encompassing in size and scope. It is because the institution is inside of us, and we can’t get outside of ourselves.”

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“From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique” by Andrea Fraser, Artforum (Sept 2005)

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