We are the Resource

In a world vying for resources, implicating a degeneration of planet, how can we uncover the potential in people and place to co-evolve towards a healthier future? What does it mean to incubate a group of developing human minds, in order to raise our levels of thinking and working to a regenerative, socially engaged paradigm?

The CASE incubator program is integral to developing a future cohort of contemporary artists, who are part of a movement toward socially engaged practice. Learning from reflective lived experience, we raise each other up to enable inner transformation and outer transformation.

The value of these types of programs for artists working to improve the world is priceless. Days spent in deep dialogue about ethics, care, self-awareness and collaboration is integral to developing our practice. To take time to sit in the unknown, and to face the questions collectively without fear is what creates a unique human resource that can lead our communities forward.

The questions we hold and keep alive in our practice are in fact, our practice. These questions exist to enable integrity, curiosity and evolution. Their consistent exploration holds more value than finding a fixed answer. To work in the unknown and hold space for others to be there with us is a paradigm shift in the way we approach the wicked problems of our world. What would the implications on society be if this way of working was the norm?

Beyond and before the physical resources we create to share with our communities, we are the resource. These incremental and organic shifts in our ways of being within ourselves and in the world are what ripple out into our homes, communities and places. This feels like the beginning of something with potential to enact real shifts in the way we all relate to people and place.