The Spring Pears are a geographically disparate collective that evolved from the Advanced Master year ‘23-’24 at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Across six months in 2025 we developed an artistic research experiment, sharing our work by sending post packages to each other. Each round a reaction to the previously received package, based on six themes which run through our six individual practices.

In the fall we will come together for a four day residency to create a printed publication around these ever evolving processes, our inability to systematically choose between priority stamps or tracking, and the tangible outcomes.

On Monday the 20th of October we have organised a moment to share the finished publication, all artistic work that was made and our experiences and methodologies from our first collective project.

‘A Care-full Debriefing’ is named after our shared interest in ethics of care, which we understand as valuing relations over results and not taking care for granted.

We are inviting collectives and individuals interested in care-full collaborative art practices and self-organised publication making. All are welcome to join this conversation, to learn how our and other collectives work, our shared and individual experiences and the highlights and struggles throughout a process of collective making.

Copies of the printed publication will be available to exchange with other publications.