Critical Care
/ (A Lecture Thing)
«What happened to care? Who cares? Do we care? I think this care thing is critical; it's the missing piece of the democracy
puzzle that presupposes that we are all self-sustaining and have equal abilities. Care is so bound up with the neo liberal project of self-mastery, self-improvement and subjectivity enhancement. Critical Care could be a strategic form of interdependence that temporarily dissipates the endless competition and isolation that capital generates. What if caring for others and ourselves were a radical act of slowing down, listening and creating spaces together that disrupt the production assembly line of social code.
I don't want to save the world but I do want to investigate a critical, queer and future inspired version of care that is not paternal, humanist, abelist, bio political or attached to exchange value. I want to talk about a few artists including myself who practice different forms of care in the context of the battlefield. What does this possibly impossible version of care look like?» Jeremy Wade
«Critical Care» is a long term project with lectures, performances and discussions involving the choreographer and performance artist Jeremy Wade. He presented his impressive one-clown stand-up-show «Death Asshole Rave Video» at the festival «Keine Disziplin», spoke about clownery and political activism in April 2016 and will infect us with thoughts about critical care in May.
→ In English. Free admission.
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