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What gives, what holds, when things fall apart?
Friday, 25 June 2021
10:00 am – 11:30 am BST

This event is an informal, online conversation between small art spaces, collectives and other initiatives to discuss how we are navigating the current pandemic (and other, interwoven crises of care) and what transformations we might implement (or have done already) as a consequence of it.

The event will be hosted by three plants (a tomato, a dandelion and a pilea) and translated by artist Rosalie Schweiker, from whose drawing we are taking our title. They will formulate some questions to ask each of the speakers during the event, around forms of reparation, economic survival, and things that need uprooting.

This event is organised in collaboration with La Sala on the occasion of Vessel’s 10th year. Participants include Annie Jael Kwan (Asia Art Activism), Raluca Voinea (tranzit.ro), and Veronica Valentini (BAR Projects), as well as Vessel and la sala.

This event will take place on Zoom at 10am BST. It will include live transcription and will be recorded. It is free to attend and open to those working in related fields who wish to join the conversation. If you would like to join, please send an email to: lasalateam@gmail.com

We look forward to meeting you there!

Participants:

Annie Jael Kwan is an independent curator and researcher whose exhibition-making, programming, publication and teaching practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art, art history and cultural activism, with interest in archives, histories, feminist, queer and alternative knowledges, collective practices, and solidarity. She leads Asia-Art-Activism (AAA), a research network that instigated tools to transform (co-initiated with Joon Lynn Goh), a project focused on creating resources for Asian and diaspora organising that received the European Cultural Foundation’s culture of solidarity grant in 2020.

Veronica Valentini is a curator, educator and mediator for Concomitentes, a citizen art program promoted by Fundación Carasso. In this framework she is developing together with activists for functional diversity the “Diversorium. Live arts and a space for coexistence”, a communal and brave space to dance and interact with all bodies. She co-runs BAR Project and BAR Tool, respectively residency program for artists and curators and training program for visual arts, and she runs EMMA, a former roaming program for art and research that today is developing public art projects with citizens.

Raluca Voinea is a curator and art critic, based in Bucharest. Since 2012 she has been co-director of Tranzit.ro association. From 2012 to 2019 she managed tranzit.ro space in Bucharest, which included an art gallery, a communitarian permaculture garden and an orangery (a space for hosting fragile plants and ideas), all developed organically and in response to both the local context and to more international frameworks. In 2021 the ideas and approach that configured this space are continued in a new project, the experimental station for research on art and life, a collective project realised by tranzit.ro together with a group of artists, curators, theorists, economists and other cultural workers in the village of Silistea Snagovului, 30 km north of Bucharest.