Lab
Institutional Imagination Lab
For turning artistic situations into future structures, awards, curricula, collaborations, and public experiments.
Institutional Problem
The Institutional Imagination Lab develops the future institutional forms that can grow from NVI’s works, labs, protocols, and research.
Research Focus
The Institutional Imagination Lab asks what kinds of institutions are needed when existing systems cannot hold complex value.
It works across the full ecology of NVI. It studies how an artwork can become a method, how a method can become a protocol, how a protocol can become a public experiment, how a public experiment can become a curriculum, award, fellowship, research partnership, or new institutional model.
This is the lab where NVI’s long-term forms are developed: commissioned labs, workshops, research partnerships, publications, fellowships, future academies, and value-based institutional prototypes.
Formats
- Institutional prototypes
- Field-building
- Artistic intelligence curriculum
- Public experiment design
- Protocol-based collaboration
- Award mechanism design
- Research partnerships
- Future institutional forms
Documentation
Related Work
Post Capitalistic Auction
Post Capitalistic Auction is a performative yet real art auction by Jingyi Wang. In each edition, artworks are auctioned through four currencies: Money, Opportunity, Understanding, and Exchange. Artists are present and choose the winning bid, with an advisory panel offering perspectives during the public event.
Voice to Voice
Voice to Voice is a participatory installation and performance built from field research, interviews, sound, video, and listening spaces. Developed from more than 80 interviews across China, the work gathers personal experiences of work, dignity, pressure, and self-worth into an environment for listening.
JUDGE ME
JUDGE ME is a scripted performance staged as a courtroom trial. Jingyi Wang performs within a structure of claimant, defendant, witnesses, expert testimony, cross-examination, jury voting, and a verdict that leaves the question open, turning the theatre into a public situation of judgment.
The Butterfly Entangled Effect
The Butterfly Entangled Effect is a large-scale installation and performance developed by Jingyi Wang in collaboration with Maurice Benayoun and collaborators across art, science, and technology. The work places ice, dormant butterflies and seeds, climate transformation, machine control, and spectatorship into one live system.