Description
This issue of Performance Research seeks to expand on and advance ideas and practices of care. During the last decade, the arts have adopted care as a hands-on concept to rethink how work is created and how it relates to its audiences. Increasingly aware that care is a performative practice that also requires imagination (Hamington 2010), artists have investigated what an aesthetics of care could be, and have sought ways to take care of one another during the creative process. Similarly, arts organizations feel the need to take better care of the people and structures they consist of – an act that requires a change to these structures and institutions, which are often already in a state of crisis. How we might think of care now – as an idea, a practice, a politics and/or an actuality that answers to the fluidity of contemporary crises and situations?
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1 Stranger than Kindness: Crises of care and performance research
KRISTOF VAN BAARLE, FELIPE CERVERA AND HELENA GREHAN
5 Ugly Feelings: Disruptive performances of race and care during
the pandemic
AMANDA STUART FISHER
15 Collaboration and Co-finitude: An agenda of care and ends
KRISTOF VAN BAARLE, RUSTOM BHARUCHA, FELIPE CERVERA,
STEVE DIXON, EVA HORN, KYOKO IWAKI, EERO LAINE, ZARINA
MUHAMMAD, AMANDA PIÑA AND SANKAR VENKATESWARAN
26 Conceptualizing Care in Partnering
ILYA VIDRIN
32 Dramaturgy of Response-ability: Exploring relational ways of thinking-with in the apparatus of theatre
JULIA SCHADE
42 Three Acts of Care in Performance and Beyond: A non-linear testimony
ÖZGÜL AKINCI, KONSTANTINA GEORGELOU, JENNIFER JOAN THOMPSON
52 A Manifesto for Care with regards to Labour [Artist pages]
KATHERYN OWENS AND CHRIS GREEN
54 Care Aesthetics, Coronavirus and Everyday Life
JAMES THOMPSON
62 COVID Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s
Performance Economy
BRYAN SCHMIDT AND SARAH SADDLER
71 ‘Who Cares?’ Exposing the Critical Paradox of Care in Performances of Disability and Disease Through the Lens of Disclosure
KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER AND JANET GIBSON
81 Ashray and Shushrusha: Performing embodied care through blind theatre in India
RAJDEEP KONAR
92 Careful Lessons from For You’s Artists & Elders [Artist pages]
ERIKA CHONG SHUCH, ROWENA RICHIE AND RYAN TACATA
94 (M)Othering Like Us: Open Casket, Dining in Refugee Camps and Parker Bright’s intervention into the presumption of care
T. NIKKI CESARE SCHOTZKO AND GIORELLE DIOKNO
103 Unconventional Carers: Children caring in and through performance
SUZANNE LITTLE
111 Y-Performance, Care and Intergenerational Response: Grieving for ‘ungrievable’ bodies in the Tuam Oral History Project
MIRIAM HAUGHTON
120 Performing the Politics of Kindness in Aotearoa New Zealand
EMMA WILLIS
128 ‘Does the Prime Minister Care?’: Spectacular solidarity, infelicitous performatives and the doubly fictitious commodification of care in India during the COVID-19 pandemic
RASHNA DARIUS NICHOLSON
136 A Grammar of Care: Morality, embodied emotion and the work of reintegration and reincorporation in Colombia
MARÍA ESTRADA-FUENTES AND ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES
145 Complicating Care: Vulnerability reimagined through performance
ORION RISK AND CHRISTINE GARLOUGH
154 Breathing Space: The invitation to exist and breathe
VANESSA DAMILOLA MACAULAY
163 Performing Waria/Performing Care: Defining care in waria contexts
PAIGE MORGAN JOHNSON
171 Potential Singularity and Transformative Instability [Artist pages]
DAVID WOODS
174 Cura, the Curatorial and Paradoxes of Care
ED MCKEON
183 Injecting the Essayistic into the Curatorial: In search of a new ethics of care to the audience in exhibition-making practices
JASPER DELBECKE
191 Governing Care: Research ethics boards
ASHER WARREN
202 Care-filled Futures [Artist pages]
ROSEANNA DIAS, CELIA TURLEY AND CARMEN WONG
204 A Listening of the Flesh: Towards an ethics of care in choreohaptic practices
JONAS SCHNOR
212 Goodnight, Sleep Tight: Training performers as palliative carers in an age of system collapse
KESIA GUILLERY, JORGE LOPES RAMOS AND PERSIS-JADÉ MARAVALA
221 ‘Do We Need to Talk about Prince Harry?’ Thoughts on care and the politics of critique
DANIELLE GILSON, HELENA GREHAN AND JOSEPHINE WILSON
229 Growing Trees of Culture: Using Appreciative Inquiry and embodied placemaking as strategies for self-regulation inside the conservatoire
ANDREA L. MOOR AND JEREMY NEIDECK WITH JEANETTE FABILA AND MARGI BROWN ASH
238 Collaborating Across Borders in Isolating Times; Four Artistic Strategies for International Cocreation, with Examples
ALYS LONGLEY
241 Counterpointing Care: Performing with fungi in three (in)different acts
ALIA PARKER AND STEPHEN LOO
251 Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care
CARE ECOLOGIES GROUP: VALENTINA CURANDI, INTE GLOERICH, ANIA MOLENDA, MAAIKE MUNTINGA, NATALIA SANCHEZ QUERUBIN, NIENKE SCHOLTS AND MARLOEKE VAN DER VLUGT
260 Come to the Table [Artist pages]
LAURIE BETH CLARK AND MICHAEL PETERSON
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262 Intimate Engagements with the Earth
SHELBY BREWSTER
264 Urban Aspiration and its Discontents
KARIN SHANKAR
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266 Notes on Contributors
