Introduction

of Settling Care Program

18.01.—24.04.

Open to the Public

various locations

Art critic, investigative journalist and writer Lucette ter Borg and artist/tutor and writer Richtje Reinsma invite you to join the new year's first Unsettling program of the Gerrit Rietveld Acade mie and Sandberg Institute, called Settling Care. Richtje and Lucette reach out to the Rietveld and Sandberg community from the deeply felt conviction that fundamental and structural changes are needed in the arts and in art education as to the point of the practice of care.

Together with you, we want to explore caretaking as a possible, viable, versatile and inspirational part of life, that can be successfully combined or even completely integrated with/into artistic practices. Care and interdependency have traditionally been regarded as the biggest possible danger to the modernistic concept of the independent, often white, male artist, who devotes all his time and energy to the creation of genius works of art.

This program will address challenges, ideals and practices that come forth from the one issue that many (if not all) creatures will be confronted with: care. From reproductive labor to informal, activist and environmental care. We are an interdependent species, even if we like to think of ourselves as independent, autonomous creatures, artists, designers and writers.