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Spore hosts: Promiscuous Infrastructures / Book launch
With the Promiscuous Care Study Group
10. October 2024
19.00-21.00
19.00-21.00
Save the Date
For free
For Youths and Adults
in German/in English
The Promiscuous Care Study Group in cooperation with Journal for Aesthetics & Protest, HumdrumPress and Meteoro Editions, launches two publications: Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care and Utterances: Composing a Care-Informed Research Practice in the Cracks.
Utterances: Composing a Care-Informed Research in the Cracks and Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing CareHow do we care for each other in our living, learning, and working lives? The research and publications call for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagine the making and use of infrastructures, and situate care within a genealogy of artistic and social practice. During the launch, we will introduce the different themes around care-informed practices and speak about the intimacy and vulnerability of the topics and the approach by entering into different dialogues with the physical books on hand.
The Promiscuous Care Study Group is an interdisciplinary group of students, teachers, and researchers situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy, an art and design academy in Rotterdam. The group formed around shared sensibilities, practices, and approaches that reach through and beyond our institutional roles and institutional work as artists, designers, writers, and educators. The collective research in the study group is diverse in approach and subject matter, touching themes ranging from institutional change, communal responsibility and accountability practices, mental health and collective care, hospitality and hosting, soil, counter-histories, intergenerational healing, joy and collective grief, and the poetics of imagining otherwise.
