Join Procreate Project to celebrate the launch of Integrated Care: From Individuals to Collective Systems, a new book by Dyana Gravina.
Saturday 26th September
2pm - 4pm
Mimosa House, London
While parenting and care have gained visibility as subject matter in contemporary art, little has changed structurally for the artists who live these experiences. This book launch marks 13 years of grassroots cultural work at the intersection of art & care, and an opportunity to both celebrate the change made over the last decade, and amplify its impact by continuing cross-sector collaborations and bringing to the public works that address care both as subject and as infrastructure: a reference for new ways of gathering, how artists and audiences participate, at what hours and in what formats.
After the launch of the Integrated Care Toolkit in April this year, which offers practical resources and actionable solutions for creating more accessible organisations and audiences for artists with caring responsibilities, the Integrated Care book complements this work, providing social, historical and personal context to the Toolkit.
The book launch will bring together artists, organisers, researchers and community members for an afternoon of conversation, readings and exchange around how we build different relational systems, sustain communities and create the conditions for more interdependent futures within and beyond the arts.
- Hear from speakers: author Dyana Gravina, book contributors Fatoş Üstek and Ama Josephine Budge and feminist art critic Katy Deepwell.
- Explore parts of the Toolkit presented in the room
- Space for creative activities and engagement
- Light refreshments
- Opportunity to connect with artists, organisers, researchers, and community members
Please indicate if you are bringing children with you, and include how many of you will be attending altogether when selecting the number of tickets.
Access notes:
- This is a relaxed event. Children are welcome at all times
- There will be resources and activities organised for families
- Tickets are pay what you can, with a suggested fee of £5 - no one turned away for lack of funds
- The gallery is accessed via street level, and public areas of the gallery are set across two floors. Access to the first floor is via two flights of stairs, or we also have an access lift for wheelchair users and those who need it. They also have an accessible WC on the ground floor. Please get in touch if you have any further requests around access. Please see Mimosa House website for more access information: https://www.mimosahouse.co.uk/visitus
- If you have any other needs or questions, please get in touch
About the speakers:
Dyana Gravina - author of the Integrated Care book and Toolkit and founder of Procreate Project and Mother House Studios, with over 13 years of experience organising and advocating for systemic change and equity for artists who are mothers and primary caregivers.
Fatoş Üstek - foreword contributor for Integrated Care, independent curator and writer with over two decades of international experience in contemporary art, and co-founder of FRANK, Fair Artist Pay.
Ama Josephine Budge - contributor for Integrated Care, speculative writer, artist, curator, scholar and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates that which she has termed “Intimate Ecologies” to explore Blackness, aesthetics and queer, pleasurable, interspecies futures.
Katy Deepwell - feminist art critic and academic, founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, published 1998-2017, in 40 volumes by KT Press which she founded as a feminist not-for-profit publishing company for journals and books on feminist art.
About Procreate Project:
Procreate Project is a pioneering grassroots arts organisation born in 2013 as an intersectional feminist proposition aimed at creating systemic change and equity for artists who are mothers and primary caregivers. Operating at the intersection of grassroots organising and institutional dialogue, Procreate Project continues to develop strategies that reposition care not as an add-on, but as a structural condition for cultural sustainability. Through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, public programmes, and research, Procreate Project has foregrounded the lived experiences of artist-parents while proposing practical and systemic alternatives. Partners and collaborators have included Whitechapel Gallery, AWITA, Create London, Tate Modern, Frieze London, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Mimosa House, Cromwell Place, the Royal College of Art, King’s College London, Arts Council England, LADA, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Rich Mix, Leyden Gallery, Goldsmiths University, London South Bank University, Lace Gallery Nottingham, Manhattan College New York, the Mayor of London, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and Lewisham Council.