Following the example of an Italian network of farmers called Genuino Clandestino (Genuine Clandestine in English), Andrea Ghelfi in his essay for the volume Instituting—space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond argues that agroecology can be understood as a movement that is trying to redefine the political, economic, and juridical space of action of organic food producers. It is this ecology of instituting practices that many of the contributions in the new volume by Archive Books address when they reflect on the interconnectedness and everyday coexistence of the spheres of economic and artistic or cultural production. How do we as artists, cultural workers, organizers and publishers institute ecologies that are based on practices of withdrawal and fugitivity from institutions, but at the same time create supportive, long-lasting, caring and ecological infrastructures?

The publication Instituting—space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond, edited by Gigi Argyropoulou in collaboration with Olga Schubert and Kostas Tzimoulis, proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organising as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures. Engaging with ongoing questions of possible infrastructures in situations of brokenness this volume brings together practices, ways of being together, of both fleeing and inhabiting spaces.

With contributions by (in order of chapters): Laura Harris, Matthew Goulish, Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, Kike Espana & Gerald Raunig, Olga Lafazani, Athena Athanasiou, Manuel Callahan, Christos Giovanopoulos & Alexandrow Kioupkiolis, Isabell Lorey, Claudia Bernardi & Paolo Do, Andrea Ghelfi, Nina Power, Ana Vujanovic & Gal Kirn, Avery F. Gordon, Sonia Vaz Borges.

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