How do we care?
A programme series on the politicisation of bodies and alternative concepts of care taking
02 Oct - 29 Nov 2020
How do we care?, Exhibition view, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2020. Photo: Stephan Baumann, bild_raum
How do we care?, Exhibition view, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2020. Photo: Stephan Baumann, bild_raum
How do we care?, Exhibition view, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2020. Photo: Stephan Baumann, bild_raum
Cola Taxi Okay, HUGS FROM AWAY, Programmreihe How do we care?, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2020. Photo: Lisa Bergmann
With Sepake Angiama, Staci Bu Shea, Alice Chauchat, Cola Taxi Okay, Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe, Formate Des Dialogs, Vanessa Grasse, Internationales Begegnungszentrum Karlsruhe, Thomas Kampe, Anton Kats, Roni Katz, Chantal Küng, Sandra Noeth, Power Makes Us Sick, Sickness Affinity Group, The School of Narrative Dance
Starting in October 2020, Badischer Kunstverein is organizing a wide-ranging performance, workshop, lecture, and discussion series. The program asks about the fragility and resistance of bodies during times of pandemic and investigates alternative and radical possibilities for care taking and aid. Artists, performers, dancers, feminist collectives and initiatives, activist health care alliances, community centers, cultural theoreticians, and somatic practitioners are invited to share new spaces as well as (medial/digital) formats based on their own forms of praxis, in order to make them accessible for collective action. A central reference is the historical and current impact of women in relation to creative, experimental, and radical spaces of assistance and negotiation.
Together with the local and international participants, we will collectively explore how forms of artistic, social, and political action can be empowered right now, and what role the body plays as a site of engagement. The integrative aspect for all participants is the politicization of the body for a critical interrogation of normative restrictions and categorizations, always in an awareness of the current pandemic, during which new forms of containment and exclusion are being debated through the body in particular – in the politics of healthcare, education, and migration.
Starting in October 2020, Badischer Kunstverein is organizing a wide-ranging performance, workshop, lecture, and discussion series. The program asks about the fragility and resistance of bodies during times of pandemic and investigates alternative and radical possibilities for care taking and aid. Artists, performers, dancers, feminist collectives and initiatives, activist health care alliances, community centers, cultural theoreticians, and somatic practitioners are invited to share new spaces as well as (medial/digital) formats based on their own forms of praxis, in order to make them accessible for collective action. A central reference is the historical and current impact of women in relation to creative, experimental, and radical spaces of assistance and negotiation.
Together with the local and international participants, we will collectively explore how forms of artistic, social, and political action can be empowered right now, and what role the body plays as a site of engagement. The integrative aspect for all participants is the politicization of the body for a critical interrogation of normative restrictions and categorizations, always in an awareness of the current pandemic, during which new forms of containment and exclusion are being debated through the body in particular – in the politics of healthcare, education, and migration.