Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum explores the possibility of the nomadic museum to facilitate social and political resistance through engagement with critical art practices and imagery. Grounded in a decade-long art therapy project in a contemporary art museum setting this book offers a theoretically rich conceptualization of this experience. The text establishes an institutional critique of both the dominant psychopathology discourse and the instrumentalizations of art practices. Innovative in its approach the results are analyzed in the framework of subjects such as hegemony-subalternity subjectivity resistance the nomadic critical art practices narratives and minor language deinstitutionalization anti-psychiatries as well as institutional therapy. With a special focus on Latin America international artistsâ writings and works are intersected with the thoughts of curators and museum decision makers. The inevitable connection of the arts with social and political fields is highlighted enabling the exploration of the intersections of art critical analysis social science psychoanalysis and political philosophy. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students academics researchers libraries and museums curators in the fields of art therapy psychoanalysis contemporary art social & cultural anthropology and political philosophy. . Language: English