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'The refusal of all organisation is not a simple anti-organisational position... To leave it at that would be to again manifest a desire for originality, to try to set oneself up as different and thereby reach a position from which to attract people. From there the movement of racketisation would begin all over again.'

• Cornelius Castoriadis: Imaginary Institution Of Society, Polity Press, 1987, p371-373.

"So, instead of being anti-institutional we're saying "we are building an institution" and in this way we aren't maintaining the romantic notion of an outside of institutions, because institutions are in language and minds and in desire as well."

• Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen Free University, 18th March, 2002".

"ok if we're living in a knowledge economy we would like to open a university which could valorise other kinds of knowlege that wouldn't fit into that system."

"It would be as absurd to have an artist-run hospital as it is to have an administrator-run arts centre."

• Heath Bunting, Cube FAQ.

"An unorganised, highly skilled individual with no solidarity selling his/her living labour as a day-labourer. The heroic avant-garde artist of today will become the scab of tomorrow0."

• Henriette Heise & Jakob Jakobsen.

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A cultural institution is usually a kind of transparrent host, it provides culture to the masses. But the workforce, the organisation itself, will not be a factor in this overtly. We invert the whole thing and say - OK, let's not worry about the event: the organisation is the project. Let's name all the individuals, go through all their motivations - turn it inside out. It's much more interesting, the guts of it. We're not putting the cultural form before the organisation - to me the organisation is the content.

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It's an artist-run cinema where the project is the running of it by artists.

"We will be unabashed about excellence in the arts. By excellence, we mean the highest possible achievement, not a value system placed on one group by another...We believe that access to the arts goes hand in hand with artistic excellence. Participation, contribution and engagement in the arts are the bridge between access and excellence. "

• Hewitt, Peter Ambitions For the Arts, The Arts Council of England website, February 2002.

"excellence serves as a unit of currency within a closed field. The survey allows the a priori exclusion of all referntial issues, that is, any questions about what excellence ... might be, what the term might mean."3

• Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 27

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