“We must move from institutional critique to institutional transformation.”

- iLiana Fokianaki 

In this symposium, we ask how can the arts– not as a sector but as a community– imagine transformation as a practice of consistent care. How can this call for change be instigated holistically through the microcosms of our relationships?  How do we refuse the colonial production of precarity, so we may tend to our labour less like machines, and more like gardens? How do we choose between the transformation or abandonment of the institution? we are what we care for brings together artists, curators and arts workers to explore modalities of care and their potential to transform how we might work together.

Over the course of a week, Gallery TPW will become a place of dialogue, collegiality, and rest as we collectively dream how institutional transformations might be sparked in the ways we care for one another.