m of care – may 30 24
[https://museum.care/events/pedagogies-of-care-4/]:
One the fourth meeting of the Pedagogies of Care group Andris Brinkmanis will be joined by Elena Sorokina, a curator who, together with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is one of the founders of The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Sorokina: Elena Sorokina is a curator, art historian and writer. She was part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 (2017) and co-curator of the Armenian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). She served as chief curator of the HISK Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Belgium in 2017–2019. As independent curator, Sorokina has organised projects at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Art Brussels, and WIELS, Brussels; Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; SMBA Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Rudolfinum, Prague; and Pera Museum, Istanbul, among others.. In 2020, Sorokina curated the exhibition “Crystal Clear: Travels in Sustainable Exhibition Making” at Pera Museum, Istanbul, which responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with principles of sustainability. The project was developed as a contained ecosystem of relations and a small circular economy with diverse entanglements of production, display, and recycling of artistic, curatorial, and institutional work, material and immaterial. It implemented the following sustainability principles: production of the work in collaboration with small local associations, radically reduced shipment of objects, no crating, the use of recuperated materials, and creative recycling of the exhibition after its closure
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (48)is an independent curator and writer. Among the projects and exhibitions she curated are Resilience. Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia at Moderna galerija/Museum of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), transmediale.
The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, started in 2020 in greater Paris, is a diverse group of practitioners of arts, crafts, philosophies, healing and therapy, its members coming from vastly spread geographies. Neither a classical collective nor a rigid structure, the Initiative is researching and reinventing modes of sustainable institutionalism. Based on friendships as well as professional bonds, it functions as an ecosystem and fosters interdependency, care and solidarity beyond identity.
[https://www.facebook.com/RadicalCare.Initiative/] with link to site [https://www.r22.fr/antennes/sollicitude-publique]: This initiative, led by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Elena Sorokina, was designed during the Covid-19 lockdown. It is located at the intersection of curatorial research and care practices – a notion which is currently arousing a lot of interest. Difficult to find an exact equivalent in French, we translate care by a multitude of synonyms: care, solicitude, attention, responsibility or concern for others..
Starting in April 2020, we began researching and supporting artistic practices that addressed the issue of care, particularly when institutions withdraw, fail to respond, or neglect a situation.
black panther (doc) et al
During the last weeks of national confinement, we invited artists living in Ile-de-France to share with us how they intend to further transform their practices towards vulnerable and fragile people in their direct neighborhoods and their communities.
How can we care, but also how can we cultivate concern? In what ways can these gestures be part of a larger movement that rethinks our system of production, distribution and mutual solidarity in the field of art? How can we try to imagine, socially and culturally, more just futures through finer forms of attention?
need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs
imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)
By addressing these questions through our initiative, we would like to bring to life an ecosystem between curators, artists and other practitioners which would be built, from its roots, on relationships of care, solidarity and inclusiveness.
identity ness
Elena Sorokina will talk about the “Initiative” and practices of mutuality, intersectionality and care in artistic and curatorial work. Care can be seen as a flow of multiple activities of social reproduction that nurture individuals and sustain social, environmental and political bonds, foreground relatedness, and focus as much on process and methods as on outcomes. Care can be practiced as a mutuality embracing the languages, energies, histories, landscapes, bodies, and materials that reflect a sophisticated, non-extractive and sensitive relationship to the human and non-human alike.
the peckham experiment ness.. sabbatical ish transition ness..
art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem)
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notes/quotes from zoom:
andris: ie of spontaneous but then ongoing
elena: has been a labor of love.. didn’t expect to last.. hard to speak about it.. based on action not language.. trying to invent language.. t
idiosyncratic jargon ness via nonjudgmental expo labeling
elena: when/where did care become such a buzzword.. we began in art in covid crisis.. where they became urgent and physical.. how labor of care remains unvisiblized and undervalued.. fundamental questions of art.. everything fluent/natural and can exist in crisis situation
elena: so how do we practice care.. dependent, intersectional .. undisciplined.. we don’t research people.. try to help them.. care is slow.. long term relationships.. collaborative.. share resources/time/energy.. emphatic.. safe space.. translocal.. stay local..
vicki on healing for sabbatical ish transition.. and perhaps we don’t really know that
elena: ies.. 1/ math to painting to singing.. grew up where women forbidden from sing .. now only woman who sings publicly in her language 2/ refugee artists w diff backgrounds.. mixing art and healing practices.. forest as place of knowledge though no forests in paintings.. place of life.. linguistic foreigners connected by her to sensorial knowledge of her body/memory/forest.. we didn’t want to translate her.. she was struggling w language.. solution?.. how to perform it in sri lanka.. kept moment of struggling w foreign language.. like *working thru layers of transmission rather than translation..t 3\ in writing.. uses 8 languages.. difficult for monolingual readers.. the frustration which are emotions are what she felt when she was young.. in country where non english speakers despised.. **language one of borders she addresses.. wasn’t a writing but a channeling of voices.. we liked ideas of opacity and of not understanding.. in west understand other in order to dominate..t her writing showing you you will never understand.. so much is necessary to convey complexity.. ***what other connection can we come up with besides understanding..t brilliant writing so want to understand what she writes but you can’t
*again.. idiosyncratic jargon ness via self-talk as data
**rumi words law.. lanier beyond words law.. language as control/enclosure
***how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove/understand/name/define ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us
elena: how to care/hospitable for diff knowledge systems.. *how can we care thru art..t how avoid concept of understanding what to replace it with.. what does it mean today to slow down and become a slow institution.. how to deal w temp imaginaries.. when everybody runs out of time.. obsession w speed.. a frenetic inactivity.. **kept busy looking for non existent jobs..t research/reflection on fundamental questions of art.. being our own instruments/methodologies..
*art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem)
ie: sabbatical ish transition in hari rat park
**bs jobs from birth.. supposed to’s of school/work.. kierkegaard busy ness law.. on hold ness
elena: this is what we have been doing for last 4 yrs.. how to create meaningful connection.. where care will operate.. t
need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
elena: [how to manage horizontality] initial question: *practices oriented to others and to *help others.. not self centered.. t.. people who came to us where already working in this way.. so gave center/platform.. if say ‘about care’ topic is endless.. when look for projects.. ‘helping others’ becomes very concrete.. art as language.. main question is what can art do.. how can we put in practice this use value.. all the possibilities of art with the means we have.. which is based in art.. also healing.. fluid.. **no structural way of inviting/developing.. opening all concepts and then see what we can use.. ***beyond defn’s.. beyond naming things art.. beyond science of excellence.. where have to manage..name drop.. in order to be recognized as artist.. so questioning all that.. we aren’t impressed by power of this..t
*careful.. ie: help\ing ness.. graeber violence in care law et al.. need the dance (brown belonging law et al).. need to trust the dance.. need to trust us being the dance
**yes to structureless\ness et al.. careful to invited vs invented
*** spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove.. ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
elena: speaks 3 languages but none useful in paris.. so his language is art..
elena: [political dimension] we have simple rule.. keep small and do what we can.. instead of thinking/posting.. we org concrete small actions.. small fundraising to do these..
elena: what encouraged us in beginning was how to de stigmatize refugees.. do everything for them to be cared for and to be recognized as themselves.. not as refugees.. so we bend this notion of care into all possible directions
nika: david started to use word care before was buzzword.. from idea that care can save us from production/consumption/wars.. we can produce care endlessly.. really briliant.. just need to make sure not an empty word
graeber care/free law.. david on care and freedom.. et al
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