Building on a common interest in feminist and translocal approaches, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, invites the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care for a one-year residency starting in June 2024. During this period, the Initiative will propose several events exploring the theme of “Care as Methodology.”

Over the course of this year, the Initiative will strengthen their ecosystem of curators, artists, therapists and researchers based in the Greater Paris region and creative practitioners who are in exile or seeking asylum in France. Together, they will experiment with strategies of institutional sustainability based on collective organizing and feminist practices rooted in anti-racist, eco-critical and social struggles. Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care relates to its practices as methodologies of care in face of capitalist, colonial and patriarchal violence that they seek to rethink through concrete gestures: public discussions and performances, collective kitchens and meals, diverse ancestral divination techniques, alliance-building and solidarity. Being rooted in the Greater Paris region and its contemporary art field, the Initiative aims to practice and reflect collectively on a “theory of care” which would reconfigure the value system inherent to this very field.