Hotel Maria Kapel: Slow Burn

2020

Institutional programme developed with Griet Menshchaert & Maja Bekan

Who do we care about and for? How can we qualify care as a feminist politics and avoid the pitfalls of caring badly or too much? How can we build practices and spaces of care within the limits of an exploitative system, with which we are all complicit?

Hotel Maria Kapel is an artist residency, exhibition space and cinema. Over the past 15 years HMK has welcomed many artists to work in their 16th century chapel. As part of an editorial committee building using artistic research to build a year programme I made the programme Slow Burn. In 2020 HMK takes time to reflect on what it means to host and care for artists, bringing together a range of voices to think about the politics of the artist residency and how we can navigate through the landscape of the art world with care. The programme is divided into six chapters that engage with a question or challenge of the institution itself: Space, navigation, work, endurance, community and time. We work together with our artists in residency to understand how, and if, we can think better about building sustainable, caring institutions.

With Kevin Hunt (GB), Harriet Rose Morley (GB) Monika Szewczyk (CA/PL), Staci Bu Shea (USA), Angela Serrino (IT), Sekai Makoni, UK, Marley Pierre-Louis (USA), Emilia Bergmark (SE), Vibe Overgaard (DK), The Rotterdam Singers, Katherine MacBride (SCT), Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Priscila Fernandes (P), Cinema of the Dam’d, Sands Murray-Wassink (US), Marga van Mechelen (NL), Rik Dijkhuizen (NL), at7, Tamara Kuselman (AR)

Kindly funded by the Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Hoorn, the Danish Art Foundation and more.