HYPOTHETICAL
SUMMER
Hypothetical Summer (HS) is a multi-format, practice-based research project that examines where and how the flow of energy and information is designed by, for, and within contemporary art—the topoi of institutional infrastructures. HS 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.
The current phase of HS focuses on exhibition design strategies. These strategies consider administrative operations, policy and protocol, communication convention-anticipation, and inter-institutional semantics as their design parameters and/or as sites of intervention. [Alternate expression as architectonic list: prétexte, threshold, paramenter, function, protocol, and event]. A report on this stage of HS and those involved will be publicly available in the Fall of 2025. A detailed overview of HS is available upon request.