Episode 5: I is for Institute with Alison Burstein, Curator at The Kitchen, and Rebecca Cleman, Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

We're not only committed to our future and our sustainability, but to those of our colleague institutions and wanting to really nurture this small arts ecology, and find a way to work together to resource share to really do those things that you always have to do to get by. 

- #rebeccacleman, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

The latest episode of ICA's podcast I is for Institute is available now. To commemorate the 50th anniversaries of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and The Kitchen, Rebecca Cleman, EAI’s Executive Director, and Alison Burstein, Curator at The Kitchen, reflect on their shared organizational histories in this live recorded event (at The Kitchen in May 2022) to celebrate the launch of the publication for the exhibition Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. They discuss an alternative arts ecology and how it informs their institutional roles in the present. Moderated by Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE’60) Curator at ICA. 

Now available! Broadcasting: EAI at ICA features texts by Cleman and Klein, along with conversations by #lorizippay, #antoinecatala, #tonycokes, #ulyssesjenkins, and #sondraperry.

Copies of the book are available for purchase here.

ABOUT THE PODCAST

This #podcast series functions as a continuation of the concepts explored in I is for Institute, an ongoing project that began in 2016 which currently catalogs over 50 conversations. What initially began as a self-reflexive project and the need to think critically about ICA’s own trajectory and internal structures soon turned to face outward. I is for Institute is a collaborative project that focuses on the many individuals who are working to reimagine the structure of arts institutions. Above all, the “I” in I is for Institute acknowledges that institutions are composed of #people and rooted in places.

Organized by #alexklein, Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE’60) Curator; Derek Rigby, Audio/Visual Coordinator; Jill Katz, Director of Marketing & Communications; Ali Mohsen, Digital Content Editor; Olive Martin, Social Media Coordinator; Pelle Tracey, ICA intern and doctoral student at the University of Michigan; and Tausif Noor and Gee Wesley, former Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellows. Music provided by Jason Moran.