The need to create what we call rooms — educational and cultural spaces of care — was discussed by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky during the pandemic. The Museum of Care appeared after David’s tragic death in 2020 as a tribute to his legacy. Everything here is free, and everyone is welcome.
Room is one of many spaces inside of our Museum. Curator is running the room: making events, collecting artefacts or their absence, meeting people and whatever else you want to do.
If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not a history of honor, or integrity, but a history of violence, slavery, and war. The world’s great empires were built on debt, and the moral claims of creditors have always been enforced by the threat of force.
The David Graeber Institute is re-imagining an abandoned ship as an anti-colonial Museum of Care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Creating a map and network of care units across the globe through Visual Assemblies
David Graeber asserted that human consciousness only exists in dialogue with others, and the myth of the individual “thinker-philosopher” is nothing but a myth. David himself was often subjected to public attacks and withstood them with fortitude. Our fights will be between real people, imaginary people, or real people played by actors.
The opensource art gallery project with downloads to artwork, international collaboration and apartment art exhibition ideas.
A series of multidisciplinary encounters devoted to the themes of care and caring
The Survival Kit collection at the Museum of Care in St Vincent and the Grenadines will focus on the maintenance of human life rather than the preservation of art objects.
The DGI art collection is here to organize open calls, commissioned art projects, help to organise APTART exhibitions, and to find connecting with potential collaborators
In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of other ways of organizing homes, cities, schools, societies, economies, cosmologies, have and could exist. The series of books Made Differently… is designed to play with possibility and to overcome the suspicion, instilled in…
Visual Assemblies rethink shared spaces — hospitals, schools, and playgrounds — exploring how we learn, work, care, and play together. A network of community-built playgrounds as Visual Assemblies could lay the foundation for collaboration and connection.
Carnival and War are both ways of interacting with strangers. One embraces difference the other is just conflict. This exhibition explores both.
A room dedicated to David Graeber’s latest collection of essays The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World Is…
What do these true educational resources, from which we may learn collectively, have in common and how do they differ from the mainstream pedagogical approaches based on competition, separation and control?
Reading and discussion of David’s favorite book. This room is a continuation of the carnivalesque rooms and projects initiated by the Museum of Care and DGI. It combines the format of public talks and a closed reading group.
In this room, we discuss David's ideas about value and fetishism as social creativity.
The room is dedicated to the discussion of the concept of debt as present in David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” as well as in other texts.
Why should we care about time? Are time at work and time off still the same time? How does time shape how we live, speak and perceive the world? How does it feel to have no future? And what about being stuck in the past? The room explores these questions by drawing on late socialist experiences.
The reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’
In this room we discuss 'The dawn of everything: A New History of Humanity'
This room is a continuation of the carnivalesque rooms and projects initiated by the Museum of Care and DGI. It combines the format of public talks and a closed reading group.
This room is a room for conversation. It overlaps with and complements the “Collective Decision Making” room, which explores the mechanisms of how people agree or disagree and how we can reach consent (and can we?).
Neoliberalism strikes when you least expect it. It is therefore important to have a first aid kit with a little more content than just plasters for the wound. First aid kit against neoliberalism v. 2.0 is amply supplied with everything you need when neoliberalism strikes.
As a follow-up to our reading group on Graeber’s “Debt” we will read Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity” as of September 2023.
Carnival is the place where everything is turned upside down, where freedom and the possibility of changing social orders and prescribed roles reign. There has never been a better place for David’s ideas to seep and stir.
This group emerged from the events, discussions, dialogues that took place around a series of essays written by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky.
The playground in an amazing way gathers the hopes and despair of today's society, perhaps much more than any other public art project because it needs fewer resources to build and it immedially accessible to the public.
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is a seminal text that in just a few steps dismantles the very idea that any form of legitimate violence can exist, or that means can be separated from ends so that a just end can make a wrong means just.
Waters are a commons. They are also a common matter and topic, widely and variously discussed in different fields and with different perspectives, aims and methodologies. This room, curated by Paola Pietronave and Arianna Sollazzo, is a space for their many forms, declinations and aspects.
Can urban dwellers be self-sufficient in food production? Let's try to find out in practice.
What is Magic? The magic of bureaucracy, the magic of technology, the magic of mass media (that magically controls all of us). Not even knowing it, we practice daily rituals that recreate the social relations that enable the rules by which we live. Perhaps the answer to the question of liberation lies in the (almost…
Is your job killing you? Do you feel the crush of spiritual violence when at work? Are you a duct-taper, box-ticker, taskmaster, flunky, or goon? We’ve got the place for you. Join us. Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group, where your humanity will be restored.
A room dedicated to the network of communities, organizations, spaces, collectives, individuals and ideas connected by Visual Assemblies - creative collaborations that aim to imagine new ways to run and organize our social systems.
We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline.
Just a month after David Graeber’s unexpected death, instead of a funeral, Nika and friends organized Memorial Carnival for DAVID GRAEBER, which took place in 250 locations around the world.
The Museum of Care is your Museum: it was created by the people for the people. During the 2020 Covid pandemic, Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber came up with the idea. After David’s death, Nika and friends created a website that hosted reading groups, assemblies, and art projects.
A room dedicated to dicussing cutting-edge food tech and sustainable food production.
We read and discuss David Graeber’s texts and related material. Please do feel free to get in touch if you are interested in presenting a particular text. All voices are welcome.
A reading list dedicated to care.
