What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism.
What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism.
Interdisciplinary and innovative, it brings together contributions from artists, researchers and practitioners who creatively consider how care can be practised in a range of contexts, including environmental ethics, progressive pedagogies, cultures of work, alternative economic models, death literacy advocacy, parenting and mothering, deep listening, mental health, disability and craftivism.
Care Ethics and Art
contributes new modes of understanding these fields, together with practical solutions and models of practice, while also offering new ways to think about recent contemporary art and its social function. The book will benefit scholars and postgraduate research students in the fields of art, art history and theory, visual cultures, philosophy and gender studies, as well as creative and arts practitioners.
What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism.
Introduction; Part 1: Caring relations: collaborating, parenting ;
Chapter 1 Care, interrelatedness and creative practices: The Care Project
(2018-2022): Jacqueline Millner;
Chapter 2 Creative care: modelling caring
practices through artistic collaborations in neurodiverse and palliative-care
contexts: Catherine Bell;
Chapter 3 Improvising caring: Catherine Ryan;
Chapter 4 Mental illness, care and the bad mother: Sylvia Griffin;
Chapter 5
Soiling the white cube: artist parent experiences: Nina Ross, Lizzie Sampson
and Jessie Scott; Part 2: Care and materiality: bodies, craft, textiles;
Chapter 6 Mattering bodies in a mattering world: Katie Lee;
Chapter 7
Remaining alert to an ethos of care: the responsiveness of artistic process:
Kylie Banyard;
Chapter 8 The migrant material: Azza Zein;
Chapter 9 Threads
of Resistance: feminist activism, collaborative making and care ethics:
Rachael Haynes;
Chapter 10 Care through craft: making in defence of Human
Rights: Tal Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Dunlap; Part 3: Care: value, work,
institution;
Chapter 11 Sex work, care work and art work in Sidsel Meineche
Hansen and Therese Henningsens Maintenancer (2018): Benison Kilby;
Chapter
12 Care-full reading: towards a speculative practice of study in the
university: Andrew Goodman;
Chapter 13 Alleviating anxiety: care in action
during the pandemic: Rebecca Mayo;
Chapter 14 Working in the Trouble and Jane
Bennetts Middle Ground: animating creative projects in the Australian
Anthropocene: Elizabeth Day;
Chapter 15 FAVOURECONOMY: sharing alternative
value in the arts: Stella Chen and Claire Field;
Chapter 16 Caring about the
vast non-existent horizon: cosmographic infrastructures and performances of
care in twenty-first century feminist art practice: Nancy Mauro-Flude; Part
4: Artist pages;
Chapter 17 Sam Bews, Elements (The Language of My Mother,
Second Iteration), 2021; Rebekah Pryor, Saltcellars, 2017; Ebony Muller, CARE
DANCE, 20172020; Luisa Bufardeci, Tacking, 2019ongoing; Linda Judge, Mum,
2019; Part 5: Care and earth: doting, healing, advocating;
Chapter 18
Patch/work, re/pair: a braided dialogue on breakage, fires, and the labours
of care: Deb Cleland and Zsuzsi Soboslay;
Chapter 19 Capturing the air: care
in the field of measurement: Jessie Boylan;
Chapter 20 Stand your ground:
global solidarity through creative care Caroline Phillips;
Chapter 21 A
manifesto of care: Keely Macarow
Jacqueline Millner is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Australia. Her books include Conceptual Beauty (2010), Fashionable Art (with A.Geczy, 2015), Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes, (co-edited with Catriona Moore, 2018) and Contemporary Art and Feminism (with Catriona Moore, 2021). She has co-curated major exhibitions and public programs including Curating Feminism (2014), Future Feminist Archive (2015) and Femflix (2016).
Gretchen Coombs is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Australia. She is a co-author of Creative Practice Ethnographies (2019) and author of The Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists (2021).
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