Your Hands in My Shoes

In this text, the two authors return to the exhibition project they curated in 2016. Their project explored every aspect of the art centre – exhibition, production, communication, education and administration, undoing the habitual separation between them. Your Hands in My Shoes aimed at unsettling institutional habits and structures in relation to time, space and professional roles. It introduced the embodied subjectivities of the staff, the artists and the public imagining how we address and express care for different bodies and relate to each other's body. The project worked towards reciprocal attentiveness, caring, trust and commitment throughout the year. The exhibition engaged artists in the life of the institution and in decisions from which they are habitually excluded. Inspired by feminist practices and epistemologies, this project worked “on, with, for, between, and against” the art centre, the artists and the public, to make visible the ethical and political implications of the relationships concerned.