#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#36: We support production separately.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#36: We support production separately.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#124: Do less, do it better.|
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10.12.2021 14:00

Reading room and discussion

Pay what you can

Jubilee + SOTA present:
Preserving art and heritage: a question of ownership?

Preserving art and heritage: a question of ownership?

Friday 10th of december, 14.00 - 17.00
Jubilee en State of the Arts (SOTA) present:
Preserving art and heritage: a question of ownership?

Reading room and discussion proposed by Jubilee within the framework of the Fair Arts Almanac session for State of the Arts (SOTA).

This session has two main topics:

  • Reading room: Boris Groys, Art in the age of biopolitics, from artwork to art documentation, 2008
  • Collective reflection and writing: ‘How shall we preserve contemporary art practices?’

This gathering takes place at Kunsthal Gent, parallel to the project GHENT: HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER by Grace Ndiritu in collaboration with Jubilee. It is no coincidence we propose to meet here as the Carmelite monastry embodies the question of how we’ve been dealing with questions of heritage preservation and property up until today.

Participants can also sign up for the public evening debate: Commoning, Property Law and Indigenous Land Rights in the Belgian Context, the fifth and final event in the context of GHENT: HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER.

Image: Grace Ndiritu

SOTA and the Fair Arts Almanac sessions 2022

State Of The Arts (SOTA) is an open platform reimagining the art world today. SOTA believes the transition of an art world towards a fairer one can also serve as a catalyst for genuine change in society at large.

Since 2014 SOTA has discussed Fair Practice in the Arts along five different axes: solidarity, diversity, transparency, ecology and ‘relationality’ (trust). It is clear that these different aspects of fairness are deeply intertwined. Fairness deserves a constant, situated and societal debate. That is why SOTA developed the Fair Arts Almanac as a common tool at the heart of its activities.

The almanac 2022 will be created during a series of preparatory events. Throughout 2021, these events will take place on a monthly basis, always at different locations, about different topics and prepared by different groups – and are open to questions that live among practitioners these days, taking the sensibilities of the various seasons into account.


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