PROGRAM OVERVIEW
CARA Exhibitions
The exhibitions program will offer significant opportunities and resources providing time, care, and space for those we work with. Exhibitions will be developed holistically, in cooperation and in parity with our wider discursive and curatorial programs, and will always be an expression of ongoing research and inquiry. With this in mind our exhibition program will remain decentralised, acting instead as a link between scholarship, cultural work, artistic practices, and activism.
The program will be formed of newly commissioned works in both solo and group exhibitions, archival and retrospective shows, and visual, sonic, discursive or experimental outcomes emerging from our research. It will also be in close conversation with new proposals and outcomes from across our broader programs that may seek to find form within the space.
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Public Program
CARA’s Public Programs are central to the development of both individual and collective practice and to the organization as a whole. Our team, fellows, artists, writers, and scholars will cooperate to organize public events of all forms, which will deepen communication across our programs based within the building; our collaborations forming within our locale in New York; and our longstanding and forthcoming partnerships beyond. The Public Program will always seek to question and develop models of learning and sharing that pursue the radical potentials and resonances of internationalism, asking what this can mean for evolving conceptions of solidarity, polyvocality, and interdependence. Both reflecting and continually renewing CARA’s deep focus on nurturing process, they will variously consider how transformative movements and struggles can locate, unveil, and overturn dominant categories of being that might otherwise delineate our capacity to learn and to grow together.
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Publications
CARA’s publishing program focuses on artistic, discursive, complex, open-ended research or moving beyond ‘definitive’ studies, and prioritizing work that opens plural, intertwined pathways for un-learning and inquiry. Our publications and related projects support works across form that test the pleasures and constraints of narrative and storytelling, and we are particularly interested in writings that explore the fertile relationships between poetics, visual arts, public and personal histories, and opportunities for radical action in the present.
CARA’s focus as a publisher has been on elder and mid-career practitioners, artists’ estates, and under-resourced cultural histories and scholarship. CARA’s inaugural years will see us publish and support books across undefinable disciplines; facilitating new collaborations between visual practitioners, writers, scholars and collectives, honoring long-standing expertise, and inviting projects that expand and unravel historically dominant understandings of authorship, inscription, or legibility.
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Fellowship
The CARA Fellowship aims to nurture artists across disciplines, uplifting knowledges and voices from different geographic contexts and making alternate historical perspectives visible. The Fellowship provides recipients with unrestricted $75,000 grants in addition to individually tailored support over a two-year term. This approach aims to imagine holistic care for artists and their practices and prioritizes process and exploration, rather than a specific set of outcomes. Awarded artists decide how best to use the funds to nurture their life and work in conversation with the CARA team to create sustainable frameworks for their practices.