Institution Building: Aric Chen in conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch

Sep 09, 2021, 01:05 PM

Architecture and design curator Aric Chen is the newly appointed general and artistic director of Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. With Nikolaus Hirsch, Chen elaborates on the difference between an archive and a collection. In this episode we ask: how can we recontextualize existing collections, how do we integrate them in other formats like exhibitions and conferences and how do we collect in the digital era?