Scotland + Venice 2020 Shortlist

Scotland + Venice 2020 Shortlist
Duty of Care [Paradise Garage]

September 2019

with Neil McGuire, Janice Parker, Sue John and Adele Patrick

For the open call for the curation and programming of Scotland’s contribution to the 2020 Venice Biennale, we submitted a proposal entitled ‘Duty of Care’ in response to the overall theme of the 17th international architecture exhibition of ‘How Will We Live Together? curated by Hashim Sarkis.

‘Duty of Care’ is a euphoric call to live within a new social contract. We wish to redesign how we collectively live our later years by re-evaluating and re-orientating our social, economic, and environmental orthodoxies to create a means of living - and dying - which is radical, ethical and sustainable. Through the creation of an autonomous, temporal space in Venice - where all conventional practice is suspended - we invite you to join us and to imagine your very best life.

This project is anchored in the story of three women based in Scotland. As Raising The Roof, Choreographer Janice Parker, and Adele Patrick and Sue John of the Glasgow Women’s Library have a five year plan, a plan to create their ideal home for collective, euphoric, sustainable later living. The project in Venice will continue the work required to reach a resolution, a resolution that will have profound and meaningful consequences not just for Janice, Adele and Sue, but for many people living in Scotland, now and in the future, who wish to live their later lives in a different, alternative way to the options open to us now.

‘Duty of Care’ was shortlisted for interview.

Image: exhibition concept image

Image: submission title page

Image: Exhibition concept

Image: Submission imagery