Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience

The group exhibition Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience focused on the mutual dependencies that exist between people, societies and institutions. The fourteen artists offered critical and solution-oriented perspectives on social relationships and power structures. At the heart of the exhibition lay individual and collective experiences of disability, illness and healing.

The exhibition presented different models of care: from self-care to political care via collective care. Several works criticised the concept of self-care and how, as a defence mechanism for individuals, it distracts from structural problems. Others presented alternatives of radical care in order to counteract social ills and to effect political change. The exhibition and the texts in the catalogue show approaches based on collective care and question traditional as well as institutional notions of care (work).

Introduction: Dr. Michael Birchall
Texts by Alice Hattrick, Lynne Segal and Lauryn Youden

2024
German/English
182 pages
Softcover
ISBN 978-88-6749-608-2