SUMMER

Hypothetical Summer (HS) is part of a multi-format, practice-based research project that examines where and how the flow of energy and information is designed within contemporary art—a topology of institutional infrastructures.

HS focuses on exhibition design strategies. These strategies consider administrative operations, policy and protocol, communication convention-anticipation, and inter-institutional semantics as latent spaces and therefore sites of intervention. (An architectonics of prétexte, thresholds, parameters, functions, protocols, and events).

A report of HS and those involved will be publicly available in the Fall of 2025. A detailed overview of HS is available upon request.

The research project in which HS is embedded provisionally considers co-design, supervision, and continuous evaluative recalibration of institutional infrastructures as fundamental activities of curatorial praxis. The project scaffolds new and agile institutional constructs by engaging with diverse cultural practices that are embedded in, intersect with, and study infrastructures, whether spatial, physical, immaterial, systematic, or programmatic.