we tend to care

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we tend to care

Carrie Allison

Curated by Franchesca Hebert-Spence

What values, ideologies, and structures do we uphold when we mow the grass, pull up weeds, or romanticize a lush field of canola? “we tend to care” complicates and challenges the moral authority that green spaces hold in the public consciousness. For a decade, Carrie Allison has made art that investigates and critiques colonial subjugation strategies that are woven into the maintenance of urban green spaces and agricultural spheres. Based in a multimedia time-intensive approach, this body of work ranges from sensitive responses to Allison’s family and territory, to nihilistic predictions of future strategies that highlight the absurdity of the social transactions reinforced through lawns. This is directly related to abolition movements, Indigenous LANDBACK conversations, anti-colonial struggles, and global liberation with the dream for new futures and possibilities of liberated lawns by critiquing the spaces around us.