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Institute of Cultural Inquiry

Los Angeles, United States

https://www.culturalinquiry.org

The ICI explores the visual methods used to document, categorize, expose, and conceal the events that define contemporary culture. Many ICI projects focus on long-standing mechanisms that through time have become lost, forgotten, or suppressed. Other ICI activities focus on current methods of thought that operate almost invisibly because they are so commonplace. Objects of interest to Institute Associates have included photographs taken by W.G. Sebald, newspaper articles about AIDS, a manual of lost ideas, found footage from a 1945 film, sound mirrors, the Narrenturm, mystic writing pads, and dream-dredging devices. Systems and methods of thought that have guided Institute research include excavation, curation, hypnotism, souveniring, animal and botanical revisionism, ventriloquism, divination, aerial navigation, and museum installation. We invite you to browse through some of the books from our library.

Publications

Left Behind


December 12, 2019

Lab Book #7: Pam Posey


September 29, 2016

ICE ATLAS


February 27, 2015

Lab Book


December 10, 2014

Visual research brochure


January 20, 2014

The Little Prince


January 20, 2012

The AIDS Bottle Project


November 23, 2011

Bees


December 2, 2010

Microscripts


December 2, 2010

Nox


December 2, 2010

Ashes and Snow


December 2, 2010

Nadja


October 26, 2010

Die Ringe Des Saturn


October 15, 2010

Ausgerwanderten


October 15, 2010

A Beautiful Life


October 12, 2010