Carnival and War are both ways of interacting with strangers. One embraces difference the other is just conflict. This exhibition explores both.
Active
Reading group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s «Rabelais and His World»
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.
Fight club
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.
APT/ART: art for everyone, in the home and the neighbourhood
The opensource art gallery project with downloads to artwork, international collaboration and apartment art exhibition ideas.
Seminars of Care
A series of multidisciplinary encounters devoted to the themes of care and caring
David Graeber Institute Art Collection
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
MADE DIFFERENTLY
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…
THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD…
A room dedicated to David Graeber’s latest collection of essays The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World Is…
Pedagogies of Care
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?
Fetish and Value
In this room, we discuss David's ideas about value and fetishism as social creativity.