Family Dinner at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm April 2024
Research Residency at Stichting CORPO - Family Dinner, September 2023
Research Residency, Goethe Investigating February 1- April 30 2023
How can we create more caring and safe food systems? Through her research Charli Herrington will explore where our food comes from through looking at her personal history and involvement in food production and interacting with local food systems in Rotterdam. The outcome of the research will focus on learning how to divest from the harmful food industry by building our own more caring food systems. The beginnings of this research at Goethe-Insitut will manifest as a series of artistic investigations through engaging with people and experimenting with visual, aural and sensorial methods.
a.k.a. MAMA, Exhibition July 22-31 2022
The practices present in a.k.a MAMA are connected by a thread of intimacy—sharing what is deeply important for each participant in this moment. Some of them allow you to take with you a small physical piece of their work, and some give you a new knowledge or perspective to return home with. The many components of the program are made for you to connect, to think, and to feel. a.k.a. MAMA is a gathering space, a bike ride, a corner store, a meal, a siren, a time capsule, a song.
Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills 2022 Spring Collection, May 28- July 10 2022
Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills 2022 Spring Collection is the first collection-exhibition of the museum held at Casco Art Institute. Here, we are metaphorically and literally spring cleaning – sorting out “things” stocked not only in the depot of TFM but also in the minds of many who were part of the journey of the museum. The exhibition “re-collects” what resources and relationships have been cultivated over two special years – coinciding with the pandemic – and shares these resources and relationships with a wider public.
Session: Melly x Eathouse x Family Dinner, April 22 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
Join us for an evening of bittersweet flavours, where Artists Charli Herrington and Gordon H. Williams will share about their collective work Family Dinner, focusing on the many ingredients that constitute community-based projects.
During this event you will also be able to make your own amaro (a herbal liqueur) with ingredients of your choice, while enjoying each other’s company and discussing experiences of community/collective care. Through the process of making an amaro, we will learn together about combining ingredients - how to bring out the sweetness in each other, contrast with each other, nurture each other and blend into a complex whole. We will use this activity to open up a discussion on collective processes, where we can share our experiences and perspectives.
Family Dinner Exhibition and Book Launch, February 26 & 27, 2022, Hof van Noord, Rotterdam
We are pleased to invite you to a pop-up exhibition and book launch as an assembly of a collaborative project with Gerardo Gomez Tonda, Amy Pekal, Carina Jansen, Patricia Nistor, Michelle Tähti, Sinwah Lai, Filippo G. Iannone, Harriet Rose Morley, Grace Lostia, Charli Herrington and Gordon H. Williams.
This October we gathered for the Family Dinner Residency to collectively study, discuss and work with the themes of hospitality, sharing and gifts. We welcome you to come share the results in this exhibition/cookbook launch.
Family Dinner residency program, October 3-24, 2021, Rotterdam/Online
Organising and hosting a 3-week online residency program with artist Gordon H. Williams. We will work with 11 other artists to explore how to work together in a sustainable and caring way. This residency will result in a published artist cookbook and a small exhibition in January 2022. We hope that this project will turn into an annual program related to art, community and food.
Souls For Foods Market, August 15, 2021, Berlin
Sharing work from cookbook project with Gordon H. Williams. Organised by Arts of the Working Class.
Artist-in-Residence at ISSP Riga, April 2021
Residency in Riga, Latvia for collaborative cookbook project with Gordon H. Williams
Practicing Tactical Solidarities II, December 16, 2020
This locally-focused second edition of Practicing Tactical Solidarities: A Roundtable on Mutual Aid, Emergency, and Continuous Care features artists, organizers, and activists working in Utrecht, many of whom are current BAK Fellows. Read more here.
If Not Now
September 30 to October 11, Exhibition at BAK: basis voor actuele kunst, with MAFA HKU.
Presenting the new work conditions of togetherness (our work on care), a collaboration with Hache Collective and Tomi Hilsee.
Accompanying the exhibition is an online event for this work, which includes a film screening and music performance, which will live stream here on October 6 at 19.00. The event recording will be available for one week after.
Click here for the exhibition schedule and to register for this online event as well as other performances.
BAK Fellowship, September-December 2020
Representing the Mutual Support Platform
The MSP is a space for conversations and actions by/between/for students, alumni and teachers of the MAFA HKU. It emerged as a collective effort in response to the crisis of COVID 19 that we experienced as some more and other less privileged people. The platform will continue to exist as internal (at times external) online resource, as expanded network, and hub.
Reading from Transcriptions for Care on Hearing is How We Touch at a Distance (HHWTD), an online radio program curated by Nancy Dewhurst.
"The project is an attempt to address our conflicting new reality; we are living in universal solitude, finding ways of being alone together, and touching from a distance."
May 13, 2020 18.00 CET (later available in archive)