Here are some links to reading, people, and organisations related to care and its embodied practices.
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Care Aesthetics: For Artful care and careful art (2023) by James Thompson
The Care Manifesto (2020) by the Care Collective
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (2020) by Madeleine Bunting
Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life (2022) by Yuriko Saito
Who Cares: the hidden crisis of caregiving, and how we solve it (2023) by Emily Kenway.
Art and Care: A platform interested in research, pedagogy and community-based practices
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Claire Cunningham and her Choreography of Care
‘Who Cares?’ by MOHA (The Netherlands)
Artful Dementia: a Citizen Science Research Lab by the Arctic University of Norway
Sue Mayo’s Breaks and Joins project
Rebecca Swift and Entelechy Arts
Fevered Sleep’s project ‘Care is’
Sensing Spaces of Healthcare (Bristol University)
Care for Music by University of Exeter and University of Bergen
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Introduction to Care Aesthetics: a recorded zoom webinar.
James Thompson presents ‘Care Aesthetics’: a recorded webinar for Hobby School of Public Affairs (Houston, USA)
Book Launch for James Thompson’s Care Aesthetics: a recorded online event, co-hosted by the CREATE Centre at the University of Sydney, the Arts and Health Research Group at the University of NSW, and the Arts Health Network.
‘Gestures’ by Fevered Sleep: a short video to encourage creativity around touch in a care home. The driving question was: ‘“what gestures and invitations of touch can we offer each other at a time when touch is limited and disparaged?”
‘8 Tender Solitudes’ by Fevered Sleep: a meditative exploration on the themes of touch, solitude and care during the pandemic.