October 25, 2021
An essay on the politics, poetics and pragmatics of exhibition budgets for Solicited: Proposals, a publication project by ArkDes and e-flux architecture probing the elements of architectural exhibitions. Read the essay here.
"The exhibition budget works as a propositional document, weaving a set of relationships between people, objects, and processes—bringing labor, material, and institutions together. Classification systems deployed within the budget (which may separate labor from material, or artwork from art worker) reveal specific cultural values and narratives of the condition of exhibition-making. The exhibition budget is a site of political action, a site for the propositions for new value systems." — Jia Yi Gu, The Budget