Virtual exhibition: Practicing Care through Art. A New Care Aesthetics
About this event
This virtual exhibition will be available on-demand on this webpage throughout the Cambridge Festival, no need to book.
THE HIDDEN KERNEL OF CARE (single-channel video 2025)
Merel Visse
FROM DUST TO DUST. (WE) SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.
Dancer: Dr Zsuzsi Soboslay. Videographer: Samuel James
ALPEN (Moving image 2020: 4m 37)
Anna Macdonald
REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS (Moving image, 2020: 5m 21)
Anna Macdonald
MOTHER ART, a caring practice.
Mother Art Collective
LA MONTAGNA MAGICA (excerpt), 2025
Micol Roubini
SPOT HEALING, 2024
Ryan Woodring
THE PANCAKE-EATING PIG AND THE VEGETABLE-EATING CHEETAH: THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN’S AFFECTIVE PERCEPTION AND CARE FOR COMPANION SPECIES, 2024
Biljana C. Fredriksen & Ana Sarvanovic
THRESHOLDS OF TOUCH (excerpt), 2023
Marloeke van der Vlugt, Carey Jewitt, Falk Hubner
The international virtual exhibition includes work at the intersection of art and care ethics showcasing the richness of the new post-disciplinary area of care aesthetics. It showcases art’s potential for positively impacting society, including health, social cohesion and the environment. Feminist thinkers have long emphasized that caring is an embodied practice, including attending to others through listening, observing, feeling, perceiving, improvising, imagining. Approaches which are also at the core of many artistic practices.
At the intersection of art, aesthetics, and care lies the potential for reimagining how we sustain our world at this time of political, ecological, and societal crises through the transformative power of creative and caring practices.
This is the culmination of the 5 year long program Art and Care Led by Dr Merel Visse (Drew University) and Dr Elena Cologni (Anglia Ruskin University), which includes talks and symposia with contributions from Europe, Africa, Australia and the US. Some have been collated in the dedicated publication Visse, M. & Cologni, E. (Eds) (2024). Art for the sake of care. Special issue of International Journal of Education & the Arts, 25(1). (see relevant launch event)
This is organised with the support of the MA Art Health and Wellbeing students, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU, UK) and MA and DMH Health Humanities, Drew University (USA).
Kindly supported by the Impact Project Fund, AHESS Research Funding, ARU
Event presented as part of the Cambridge Festival.