The Institute of Cultural Inquiry was founded in 1989 by a small group of L.A. based artists and became a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit Corporation in 1994. ICI activities are centered on exposing and unraveling hegemonic cultural trends through a unique method that straddles the divide between scholarly texts and visual art. Occupying a space between collaboration and collective, the ICI exists through the activities of its Associates working in a variety of mediums, and methodologies. Over the last two decades, the ICI has produced an array of performances, displays, publications and ambitious time-based projects that reach a large and diverse global audience. Following is a list of ICI projects that Lise Patt has initiated or co-initiated:

• With Everything But the Monkey Head: Theorizing Art’s Untheorizeable processes (2016 – present)
• The Third Triangle (2012-13)
• Visualist-in-Residence Residency Project (2012 – present)
• 100/10 (100 days/10 curators) Curatorial Project, Winter 2011
• Traumbagger (With Axel Forrester), 1994-present
• The Manual of Lost Ideas (with A. LaFarge and L. Josephsen), 1998 – 2001
• The Aztec Manifesto, 1993
• The AIDS Chronicles, 1994- present