Practice(s) of Care

Celia’s practice is about repair and mending knitwear, and thinking of anatomy through darning. I’m thinking of this image specifically in relation to training bodies and dummies

Fire hose training dummies

Fire Hose Dummy by Finn Thompson (2016)

Care can help us to think about violence

In England, Department for Education statistics have suggested that only 6 per cent of care leavers have gone on to participate in higher education by the age of 20. By contrast, nearly 49 per cent of the general population were participating in higher education by age 30 in 2016.

Many contradictions happening here and it is difficult to make sense of – there female labourers doing caring, hands of soldiers fighting in a war being cared for.

Tutting dance moves: From Urban Dictionary – The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. So when you "tut" you change the angles of your arms according to the beat. Those who are more experienced pop when changing from angle to angle thus refining the style. Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King Tut aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.

Caring and Terrorism: The Living Arts in the City by Joan Tronto

“Many subjects report that ASMR is triggered by the receipt of tender personal attention, often comprising combined physical touch and vocal expression, such as when having their hair cut, nails painted, ears cleaned, or back massaged, whilst the service provider speaks quietly to the recipient. Furthermore, many of those who have experienced ASMR during these and other comparable encounters with a service provider report that watching an 'ASMRtist' simulate the provision of such personal attention, acting directly to camera as if the viewer were the recipient of a simulated service, is sufficient to trigger it.”

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Rolling out over four nights at London’s Toynbee Hall, The Touching Contract requires full-body participation from its audience as they are channelled through the building’s halls and theatre spaces, not to mention its corridors, stairs and lift. The body-to-body language developed for the work, by Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne, is based on local activists’ and community organisers’ experiences of detention, control and medical treatment, as well as the day-to-day shove and grind of life. At the hands of female performers dressed in institutionally “cheery” yellow tones comes touch variously reminiscent of the affection of a child, the slack weight of a sick relative, the ambivalent probing of a doctor, or the furtive gropes of the predatory.

Article about how domestic skills are being forgotten and need to be relearned – the suggestion is that YouTube videos can teach us how to wash up/make a bed/change a lightbulb/sew on a button/bleed a radiator. 

I like how this looks like a ‘set’ for care practices – and how the narrator is reading from a ‘script’. 

When You Work At a Museum Dance-Off 2016 [Museum Victoria]

Gloves in situations of care