Syllabus Reading Group #9: Care Networks

#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#34: We pay artists.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#34: We pay artists.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|

28.04.2022 19:00

Online, met Jesse Jones & Barbara Mahlknecht

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Syllabus Reading Group #9: Care Networks