Take Care Symposium
description
The Future Clinic for Critical Care presents Take Care as part of NO LIMITS theatre festival at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.
Take Care is a three-day symposium founded on the relational ethics that disability culture has both established, and still demands. The symposium gathers disabled and disability-allied artists, activists, social workers and theorists. Together, we critically reflect on care. For us, taking care means formulating new tools for navigating the interdependence required to untangle the static social/political agendas of our time. This is work of activation, as much as elaboration. In line with the perspective of numerous disability activists we take care not only as a past/present/future medical issue for all—but as a social, creative and political strategy.
We are asking: To what extent can the experiences of mutual caring serve as models for emancipatory relationships, action and the very foundation of resistance movements to come? We offer lectures, performances, conversations, controversial formats and positions on care. We invite guests to hang out and participate in the program.
In 1988, Audre Lorde declared that “Self-care is a form of political warfare.” In the neo-liberal delirium of independent individualism a.k.a. “survival of the fittest”, care and caring need to become battle cries for future systems of collaboration and compassionate support. What if care motivated new and radical forms of interdependence? What if these new approaches were strong enough to disrupt the isolation and competition that capitalism perpetuates?
Take Care is a three-day symposium founded on the relational ethics that disability culture has both established, and still demands. The symposium gathers disabled and disability-allied artists, activists, social workers and theorists. Together, we critically reflect on care. For us, taking care means formulating new tools for navigating the interdependence required to untangle the static social/political agendas of our time. This is work of activation, as much as elaboration. In line with the perspective of numerous disability activists we take care not only as a past/present/future medical issue for all—but as a social, creative and political strategy.
We are asking: To what extent can the experiences of mutual caring serve as models for emancipatory relationships, action and the very foundation of resistance movements to come? We offer lectures, performances, conversations, controversial formats and positions on care. We invite guests to hang out and participate in the program.
In 1988, Audre Lorde declared that “Self-care is a form of political warfare.” In the neo-liberal delirium of independent individualism a.k.a. “survival of the fittest”, care and caring need to become battle cries for future systems of collaboration and compassionate support. What if care motivated new and radical forms of interdependence? What if these new approaches were strong enough to disrupt the isolation and competition that capitalism perpetuates?
credits
Concept & artistic direction
J&J (Jessica Huber & James Leadbitter) /
Set design & artistic collaboration
Gabriela Rutz with Ramin Mosayebi /
Production/Administration
Mary Osborn for Artsadmin, Yvonne Duenki for Artem /
Featuring music
Station 17
thanks, production, support
Production & Administration: Mary Osborn for Artsadmin, Yvonne Duenki for Artem
Funded by: Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia, Migros Kulturprozent / Prärie