Performance Research Volume 27 Issue 7

On Care

Issue editors: Felipe Cervera, Helena Grehan & Kristof van Baarle

ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 27:7

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