TY - JOUR

T1 - Rehearsing Organization

T2 - Art, eutopia, pre-enactment

AU - Beyes, Timon

AU - Vilstrup Holm, Ditte

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2026

PY - 2026

Y1 - 2026

N2 - In contemporary art, the question of organization, and of how to organize differently, has become a key concern, leading to a wide range of organizational experiments as material of art itself. In this paper, we investigate contemporary art’s organizational aesthetics by turning to the exhibition documenta fifteen as the hitherto most visible forum of art’s turn to alternative organization. We identify four modes of organizing – diagramming, hanging out, infrastructuring and archiving – performed and exhibited at the exhibition, and we develop the notion of pre-enactment as aesthetic register of reimagining and rehearsing organization.

AB - In contemporary art, the question of organization, and of how to organize differently, has become a key concern, leading to a wide range of organizational experiments as material of art itself. In this paper, we investigate contemporary art’s organizational aesthetics by turning to the exhibition documenta fifteen as the hitherto most visible forum of art’s turn to alternative organization. We identify four modes of organizing – diagramming, hanging out, infrastructuring and archiving – performed and exhibited at the exhibition, and we develop the notion of pre-enactment as aesthetic register of reimagining and rehearsing organization.

KW - aesthetics

KW - alternative organization

KW - art

KW - atmosphere

KW - chronopolitics

KW - pre-enactment

KW - prefiguration

KW - time

KW - utopia

KW - Cultural studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105026375026&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/01708406251400496

DO - 10.1177/01708406251400496

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:105026375026

JO - Organization Studies

JF - Organization Studies

SN - 0170-8406

ER -