This article is a part of the room: Museum of Care as a Project
What The Museum of Care IS
- An idea
- An art project
- A collection of spaces to meet
- A place to hide
- A place that you can make your own by copying everything and taking it with you
- A place to argue, and to be friends
- A mailing list, a collection of links, a reading group or movie club.
Mostly it is the people themselves. Actually, there is nothing in it except the people.
What The Museum of Care IS NOT
- A collection of goods and treasures that may be stolen and sold
- A fundraising machine
- A cemetery
- A job centre
- A political party
- A lobbyist group
It is anti-anti
- Anti-neoliberals fundamentally, and specifically: against property as a right to prohibit people from doing what they want to do
- Anti-representative democracy fundamentally, and specifically: representing other people’s interests in the absence of those being represented
- Anti-authoritarian fundamentally, and specifically: long meetings of people who are in the business of making decisions for other people
- Anti-wall, anti-barriers, anti-borders fundamentally, and specifically: instructions for those who don’t want to follow them
It is pro-pro
- Pro freedom fundamentally, and specifically: everyone has the right to leave and to do whatever they want to do
- Pro laughter and silliness fundamentally, and specifically: for those who come to us to procrastinate, to idle, to be silent and to watch
- Pro privacy fundamentally, and specifically: for everyone’s right to be themselves, to not share what they don’t want to, and to not been forced to do what they don’t want to do
- Pro risk fundamentally, and specifically: for everyone’s right to strive for the impossible, for the unexpected
- Pro scandal fundamentally, and specifically: for the right to quarrel, to argue and reach for truth
