The Upside-Down Museum: Practice-based Institutional Critique, Working up from the Actual Museum Floor by Aldo Giannotti Ginette Mathiot freedom and space (and who

freedom and space (and who has access to these things)

inspiring and ever-expanding

the Penguin Fairy of the Antarctic and many more

self-reflection and empathy

The rest of this compilation contains texts—more than half of which have never before been published—that contemplate one or two works by an individual artist

The Upside-Down Museum: Practice-based Institutional Critique, Working up from the Actual Museum Floor by Aldo Giannotti Ginette Mathiot freedom and space (and whoIn defiant response to the mechanisms, habits, and status of the museum, artist Aldo Giannottis concepts and props, initially conceived in sketchbooks, transform into tangible institutional realities, reshaping the museums social and spatial architecture and sometimes literally breaking its walls. This realignment establishes accountability, on the spot and without holding back, to meet real needs. This is a practice based institutional critique based