An initiative of the International Association for Art Critics (AICA), the inaugural AICA Academy was held this year in conjunction with the Association’s annual congress in Krakow, Poland and themed ‘Contested infrastructures: Art Criticism and the Institutionalisation of Art’. The Academy sought to engage younger art critics in the face of a reduction in art criticism training opportunities across the globe – a trend also observed locally.
In the initial Academy discussion, three key themes or concerns were established: language and identity, economic conditions and precarity, and motivation. These themes were then interrogated over the course of the congress.
