#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#107: Build a community / scene.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#28: Make Contracts.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#107: Build a community / scene.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#28: Make Contracts.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|
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28.04.2022 19:00

Online, with Jesse Jones & Barbara Mahlknecht

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Syllabus Reading Group #9: Care Networks

Syllabus Reading Group #9
Thursday 28 April 19.00 - 20.30 Brussels time

In this edition of the reading group we discuss experiments with care networks. We read excerpts from "A Politics of network-families? Precarity, crisis and careful experimentations" by Manuela Zechner, from the Nanopolitics Handbook (2013).

Hosts: Barbara Mahlknecht, Sarah O'Rourke, Jesse Jones

In English, online

Since 2020, the Syllabus Reading Group is organized by Kunsthal Gent around the work 'Syllabus' by the Irish artist Jesse Jones: a monumental curtain with the arm of Silvia Federici, creating a space for (activist) gathering.

This season is organized in collaboration with Jesse Jones and feminist researcher Barbara Mahlknecht, around the theme of care - from care work to institutional intimacies. How do we create a culture of care in our everyday encounters and social reproductions?

We gather online, once a month on Thursday nights, from February 24 onwards. We will read and discuss a new text every month. By the end of each meeting we suggest several texts and decide together what we will read next time. You can also just join and listen in. Welcome!

SUMMER 2022
The Syllabus reading groups lead up to a live Syllabus Summer School Retreat, to take place in Kunsthal Gent in July 2022. This live Summer school aims to ask the question: How do we return to a space of shared cultural community after two years of lockdown?

PREVIOUS
- Excerpt of SYLLABUS workshop with Silvia Federici, “On Joyful Militancy
- Previous Syllabus Reading groups and activities

DATA SYLLABUS 2022

ONLINE
Syllabus Reading Group #7, Thursday 24 Feb 19.00 - 21.00
Syllabus Reading Group #8, Thursday 31 March 19.00 - 20.30
Syllabus Reading Group #9, Thursday 28 April 19.00 - 20.30
Syllabus Reading Group #10, Thursday 19 May 19.00 - 20.30
Syllabus Reading Group #11, Thursday 23 June 19.00 - 20.30

LIVE
Syllabus Retreat 4 - 24 July
Syllabus Summer School 21 - 24 July

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