D. Martins
Quiet Room: A Call for Radical Rest
2023, "When care alone isn’t enough to keep you afloat, it’s time to rest.”Care and rest are not the same.
The Quiet Room was initially centred on care in a learning environment laser-focused on fast paced production. Care allows us to stay active within a production culture.
Rest means to stop producing, even if just momentarily.
We had a need for care, but we couldn’t find the space to properly care for ourselves in this environment, and that turned into the need to rest. That’s the evolution of the Quiet Room. An iterative process that culminates in a call for radical rest.
To what extent does the lack of space for rest, emotionally and spatially, mirror the power structures we operate within today?
2023, "The gallery is closed."
2023, "The walls are resting. We’re breathing.”
