In the Mirror of Care Work
Symposium: Workshop & Public Talk
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Join us to experience In the Mirror of Care Work’s performative interviews, scores for collective reflections, and get a glimpse of the project’s publication. You will also hear about initiatives involving Helsinki-based artists and organisations while enjoying a homemade brunch.
19.1. at 13-17
CARING FOR THE (PERFORMER AS) CAREGIVER
- workshop in post-liminal care for artists
Our work is full of endings; how to care for what comes after? During the workshop, we will work with hands-on tools to deal with the time that follows a performance production. The workshop will include collective post-liminal blues interviews guided by Inga Gerner Nielsen.
What do you need once the end comes? Which states do you fall into? What would it mean, and what would we need, if we viewed our artistic practice as care work? What kind of protocols and institutions does performance as care work need?
We’ll engage in collective discussions, imagine and explore collegial acts of support, and close the afternoon with a magic potion by Hildegarde von Bingen!
The workshop is hosted by Inga Gerner Nielsen and Daniela Pascual Esparza.
20.1. at 12-14:30
LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: CROSS-SECTORAL PRACTICES IN THE ARTS
-public talk open for all
We warmly welcome you to a conversation between Inga Gerner Nielsen, Ar Utke Ács, Tea Andreoletti and The Institute of Care, a project initiated by Vienne Chan in collaboration with Trojan Horse, Tuukka Haapakorpi, and m-cult.
Facilitated by Daniela Pascual Esparza, the discussion brings together artists and professionals who are creating thresholds at the intersection of art and other fields. Indeed, In the Mirror of Care Work opens the possibility to discuss and reflect on what happens when we look at ourselves — our practice, skills, needs, working conditions — through the lens of another.
Our guest speakers will share who is on the other end of the mirror for them and reflect on their encounters with alterity. The mirror emerges as a path for finding synergies, differences, and overlaps; it is both a tool for introspection and coming together.
This encounter is open to all, especially to those who feel curious about the relationships between performance and care work, and about hands-on approaches for working cross-sectorally in the cultural field.
Brunch starting at 11:15 and the talk will begin at 12:00. Free entrance.
In the Mirror of Care Work is initiated by performance artist Inga Gerner Nielsen with a knowledge production team consisting of choreographer Ar Utke Ács and publisher Nat Marcus. The project is a collaboration with the Nursing Education at UCN (DK), Mad House Helsinki (FI), The Institute of Care (FI), MDT (SE) and Tabloid Press (DE) and is supported by Nordisk Kulturfond.
Kuva: Marit Benthe Norheim, Inga Gerner Nielsen & Nat Marcus