Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is delighted to present Duty of Care: Part Two in partnership with Institute of Modern Art.
In the art world and in wider culture, there’s a new emphasis on care, focusing on gentle attentiveness and good works, and a fear of triggering hurt. Care has become an overworked buzzword and is being used to reset policy and practice. However, too often, the complexity and troublesomeness of care are smoothed over by liberal good intentions.
Co-curated by Angela Goddard, Robert Leonard, and Stephanie Berlangieri, Duty of Care is an international group show with over 30 artists across the two sites. The selected works explore familial, institutional, and professional care; care and gender; care and race; care and medicine; artists as healers; extreme care; and more.
GUAM Director Angela Goddard says: “We are delighted to work with the IMA on this major exhibition that brings a diverse selection of national and international artists to our local audiences. We hope to address the multifaceted nature of care, examining its transformative power through the lens of art, yet also its problematics and tensions of tipping points into obligation and coercion.”
The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day international symposium Care, Who Cares? on 17 August 2024 at Griffith University Art Museum.
The symposium will include a keynote presentation by Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (2021).
Other Speakers include: Stephanie Berlangieri, Angela Goddard, Tara Heffernan, Robert Leonard, Joel Sherwood Spring, Charla Strelan, and Cassie Thornton.
Presentations by Tara Heffernan and Joel Sherwood Spring are supported by un Projects.
Details of further public programs will be released throughout the exhibition’s duration.
Duty of Care: Part One remains open at the Institute of Modern Art until 22 September 2024.
INCLUDED ARTISTS:
Part One (IMA)
Kathy Barry, Benetton/Oliviero Toscani, Joshua Citarella,
Martin Creed, Julian Dashper, Florian Habicht, HOSSEI, Mike
Kelley, R.D. Laing, Leigh Ledare, Teresa Margolles, Dani
Marti, Dane Mitchell, Betty Muffler, Michael Parekōwhai, Tabita
Rezaire/Amakaba, Michael Stevenson, Cassie Thornton, and
Arthur Żmijewski.
Part Two (GUAM)
Cem A., Jeamin Cha, Margaret Dawson, D Harding, Sally Mann,
Lauren Lee McCarthy and David Leonard, Chia Moan, Tracey
Moffatt, Michael Parekōwhai, Sam Petersen, David Shrigley, Sun
Yuan and Peng Yu, and Johan Joseph Zoffany.
Image: Lauren Lee McCarthy and David Leonard, I.A Suzie (2019), video installation (screen), sound, 9.04 minutes, orthopaedic chair.
