Duty of Care
  • HOSSEI 'THUNDERBLOOM' 2023. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Cassie Thornton 'The Hologram' 2023 and Betty Muffler 'Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)' 2021. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Cassie Thornton 'The Hologram' 2023. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Cassie Thornton 'The Hologram' 2023. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Betty Muffler 'Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)' 2021. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Kathy Barry 'Twelve Energy Diagrams' 2015 and 'Twelve-Minute Movement' 2016. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Kathy Barry 'Twelve-Minute Movement' 2016. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • R.D. Laing, from 'Knots', 1970. Dane Mitchell 'Remedy for Agoraphobia, Ataxia, Anxiety (AgNO3)' 2016. Mike Kelley 'The Greatest Tragedy of President Clinton's Presidency' 1999. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Mike Kelley 'The Greatest Tragedy of President Clinton's Presidency' 1999. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • United Colors of Benetton/Oliviero Toscani 'AIDS: David Kirby' 1992. Michael Parekōwhai 'Acts II' 1994, collection Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Michael Parekōwhai 'Acts II' 1994. collection Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Dani Marti 'Notes for Bob' 2013. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • 'Duty of Care: Part One', Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Joshua Citarella 'All the Wellness Products Americans Love to Buy are Sold on Both InfoWars and Goop XII and XIII' 2023. Photo: Louis Lim.

  • Tabita Rezaire 'Amakaba' 2021.

  • Artur Żmijewski 'Repetition' 2005.

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Duty of Care

Part One

29 June–29 September 202429 Jun–29 Sep 2024

#DutyofCare

In the art world, there’s a new emphasis on care, with a focus on gentle attentiveness and good works, and a fear of triggering hurt. In curatorial practice—and in culture more broadly—’care’ has become a 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.

Care is a murky notion. It is entangled with ugly feelings of obligation and burden, exhaustion and sacrifice. It is sometimes a mask for coercion and control. It is co-opted by commerce as a marketing tool, rebranded and repackaged as wellness and self care. The ‘uncaring’ positions—libertarians and litterers, meat eaters and gas guzzlers—are regularly overlooked too. How might these contingents inform the practice of care?

An international group show, Duty of Care will explore familial, institutional, and professional care; care and gender; care and race; care and medicine; artists as healers; and extreme care. It is a partnership between the Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University Art Museum, encompassing two exhibitions, from 29 June–29 September and 15 August–9 November respectively, and a symposium at Griffith University Art Museum on Saturday 17 August.

ADVISORY: Duty of Care includes images of nakedness and sex, of violence and illness, and of human remains.

Artists

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, Michael Stevenson, Cassie Thornton, and Artur Żmijewski

Curated By
  • Stephanie Berlangieri, Angela Goddard, and Robert Leonard
Off-Site Venues
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The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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