Care: Forging an Alternative Ethics Through Art
Care: forging an alternative ethics through art, a roundtable workshop. Led by Associate Professor Jacqueline Millner, LaTrobe University.
Workshop schedule:
9:30-10:00 Meet and morning tea
10:00-12:00 Care as a research approach and a method: seminar led by Millner, participants to prepare by reading extracts from some key texts on care, ethics and art.
12:00-1:00 Walking as care with Rebecca Mayo
1-2 Lunch (A light vegetarian lunch will be provided)
2:00-4:00 Roundtable discussion of participants’ research projects and practice, moderated by Millner
Reading list:
The texts are selected to offer different disciplinary perspectives on care, including a focus on caring for ecologies, for democracy, and for artists. Common to all is an interest in how uncovering care as a fundamental condition of life can be a politically transformative move: can paying attention to practices of care allow us to glimpse alternative realities at the heart of dominant systems?
•Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, Chapter 5: ‘Soil Times: the pace of ecological care’
•Joan Tronto, Who Cares? How to reshape a democratic politics, Cornell Scholarship online, 2015, Chapter 2: ‘When we understand care, we’ll need to redefine democracy’.
•Helena Reckitt, ‘Support acts: curating, caring, and social reproduction’, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 5:1, 6-30, 2016
•Care Project literature review commissioned by Millner and written by Dr Barbara Campbell
For PDFs of the reading list, or any questions please email rebecca.mayo@anu.edu.au
Care: forging an alternative ethics through art is kindly supported by Visual Arts Endowment funding.
Image: Rebecca Mayo, It’s in the Bag, 2019. (guided walk, Melbourne CBD, Art + Climate = Change 2019) Photo credit: Yarrow Ruane
This event is hosted by the School of Art and Design, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences