As part of a diverse practice, we pursue design excellence in two main arenas: architecture and museum/exhibition work, ranging from public and institutional to installations and historic adaptive reuse.
The Collections Division also oversees the Collections Information and Access department, Conservation, Imaging Services, Installation, Institutional Archives, and the Office of the Registrar, ensuring that all of the Center's holdings are well cared for, recorded, and accessible.
SUMO's work, which ranges from installations to institutional buildings, has been exhibited in the National Building Museum, MoMA, the Venice Biennale, the Field Museum, the GA Gallery, and the Urban Center.
It is all these things - an installation, an institutional critique, an example of relational aesthetics.
Paul Busse, a landscape designer in Alexandria, Ky., is a leader in the design and installation of institutional garden railways.
In largely unrenovated spaces at 40 and then 22 Wooster Street, he gave shows of cutting-edge artists whose interests ranged from large-scale installation to institutional critique to video to abstract painting.
And the sale cannot avoid being a performance, a Conceptual installation, an institutional critique and a loaded metaphor in a place filled with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of objects that have, at least theoretically, departed the commercial realm for good.
In Cleveland, for instance, an integrated group of worker-owned companies, supported in part by the purchasing power of large hospitals and universities, has taken the lead in local solar-panel installation, "green" institutional laundry services and a commercial hydroponic greenhouse capable of producing more than three million heads of lettuce a year.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context.
