The Institute for Human Activities (IHA) is a research project, initiated by a Dutch artist Renzo Martens and developed at the KASK – School of Arts in Ghent. IHA’s goal is to prove that artistic critique on economic inequality can bypass it not symbolically, but in material terms. Since 2014 the IHA collaborates with the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC). Together they have set up the Lusanga International Research Centre for Art and Economic Inequality (LIRCAEI) in Lusanga, DR Congo.
Renzo Martens, White Cube (still). © Human Activities, 2020.