Sasha Pevak

‘If the Museum Is Funded by Exploitative Labor Practices, or Practices That Ruin the Planet, It Remains Only a Health Spa for Art Lovers’: Interview with Renzo Martens

Sasha Pevak

In 2012, the Dutch artist Renzo Martens founded the Institute for Human Activities (IHA), which, since 2014, he has developed in collaboration with the cooperative Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) on a former palm oil plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through the IHA, Martens has sought to analyze global mechanisms of power, resource and value extraction.