To Mind is to Care - Exhibition
The group exhibition 'To Mind Is To Care' focuses on the act of caring-for. The featured works by invited artists look at how we take care of other people, other life forms and technology. Alas the exhibition was forced to close after the opening weekend, due to new corona-rules.
The exhibition focuses on this caring-for by inviting artists to realize their contributions over the exhibition period and make the public a part of their processes of caring for the works. The show focuses on taking care of people, other life forms and technology. The actions performed by the artists in their processes continuously lead to visible differences in the works over time. The results of these actions offer insight into what caring-for in the practice of artists means and how they use it to investigate care themselves. They provide insights into the preconditions for taking care of something or someone, but they also, for example, reflect on how we care for our technology and how it, in turn, can provide for people. In contrast to other exhibitions, To Mind Is To Care will only be “finished” at the finissage, when all the artworks are completed with care.
* See: Fisher, Bernice, and Joan C. Tronto. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Care.” In Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives, edited by Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson. State University of New York Press, 1990.
Featured artists
Ana María Gómez López
Driessens & Verstappen
Nathalie Gebert
WE MAKE CARPETS
Video documentation
Practical
Dates: 11/12/2020 - 10/01/2020
Opening: 11/12/2020
Forced closure from 15 December onwards
(One could still have a look through the window). A special documentation video was made and shared through social media and the website.
To Mind Is To Care
The first phase of the interdisciplinary research project To Mind Is To Care took place in 2018–19 and resulted in the recent publication of the book To Mind Is To Care, with contributions from authors including Ellen Dissanayake, Driessens & Verstappen, Arjo Klamer, Ann-Sophie Lehmann and Frederiek Bennema, Pieter Lemmens, Michael Marder, Frank Pasquale, Jeannette Pols, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Bernard Stiegler. The project was curated by Joke Brouwer and Sjoerd van Tuinen.
The second phase of the research will take place in 2020–21 and will consist of an exhibition, a symposium and an adjunct program in which artists will further investigate, in a practice-based way and in dialogue with the public, various aspects of and views on care highlighted in the book.
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The opening of the exhibition To Mind is to Care will take place on the 11th of December between 6 p.m & 9 p.m.
In the Who Cares? program, artists participating in the exhibition To Mind Is To Care talk with authors who have contributed to the eponymous book, the exhibition’s curator, and others.
'Punctum' (2017-) is a work by Ana María Gómez López. It is part of the exhibition 'To Mind is to Care'.
Symbiotic Transmitter (2020-2021) is a hybrid structure of interacting electronics and plants, created by Nathalie Gebert.
Herbarium Vivum 2 (2020-2021) is the second iteration of the work Herbarium Vivum by Driessens & Verstappen.
'Paper Roll Carpet' (2020) is a floor filling installation by We Make Carpets, made from rolls of coloured A4 paper.
Ana María Gómez López (CO/US) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher living and working in Amsterdam.
Nathalie Gebert is an artist and designer working in the fields of new media, art and feminist theory.
The artist couple Driessens & Verstappen (Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen) have worked together since 1990.
'To Mind Is to Care', edited by Joke Brouwer & Sjoerd van Tuinen, proposes ethico-aesthetical models of care, in which science does not search for deterministic outcomes, technology does not lead to abandonment, politics does not induce ...
A tomato plant is growing in the window of V2_'s groundfloor. Follow the growth of the installation in the image gallery.
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