SITAC Museums and Social Anesthesia

Today’s contemporary art museums are also forums for critical discussion as well as social and political activism in which artworks, exhibitions and the activities they present take on a central role. How effective is that role when they open up to these dimensions? Are art institutions organizations that construct a social identity and platforms for action that provide results in society? Or do they function as new spaces of anesthesia for tensions and the conflicts driven by the real-world powers that finance them and determine the course of their existence?