In increasingly fragile, unstable conditions in which cultural institutions exist, Ruined Assembly rethinks past practices of sharing institutional infrastructure⁠1 , asking what counter-practices can be exchanged to resist the conditions that produce asymmetry and instability. The installation hosts the exhibition’s public programme, offering visitors a space to rest, meet, and spend time.

The installation comprises two forms of mapping. The first, Dark Net, is the result of research grounded in a forensic methodology of technological and extractive dependencies, developed by Oleksii Minko, Fernando Morales de la Peña, and Antonina Stebur.

The second is a map of counter-practices, built by institutions and initiatives from unstable political and economic contexts that took part in a collective mapping process at the beginning of the exhibition. Both maps focus on the geographies of Ukraine, Pakistan, Greece, Iran, Chile, Kazakhstan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They connect these places while holding the tension between pervasive extractive infrastructures and the possibility of alternative practices.

The Ruined Assembly Gathering on 28 January invites seven cultural institutions, which for decades have worked within unstable political and economic contexts shaped by war, repression, political turbulence, technological asymmetries, and extractive economies.

The space also hosts a public Closing Programme towards the end of the exhibition period, on 26 and 27 February, co-curated with MOST Magazine. More information about its schedule coming soon.