Type: Lab
The Revaluing Care Lab organized a transnational conference that took place virtually via QiQoChat from May 12-14, 2022.
The labor of caring — for human and non-human worlds — is often invisible, underpaid, unrecognized. Care becomes visible mostly when it is not done or when it fails. The importance of naming essential workers as such emerged when they could not perform their jobs amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The seriousness of climate change becomes visible only as a consequence of the intensifying ecological crisis. This conference gathers activists, artists, scholars, and visual recorders to ask: what does it mean to visualize care? While the emphasis on imaginaries aims to underline the utopian dimension of redesigning care, the importance of infrastructures sheds light on concrete practices and assemblages that are built through these alternative designs.
Panels
May 12, 2022
Care Infrastructures in Unequal Worlds
Chair: Jocelyn Olcott
Speakers: Emma Power, Miriam Williams, Kelly Dombroski, S M Waliuzzaman, Samantha Thompson
May 13, 2022
Politics of Care
Chair: Riikka Prattes
Speakers: Joan Tronto, Sarah Munawar, Nadine Machikou, Maggie FitzGerald
Legal Structures of Care
Chair: Marija Bartl
Speakers: Anju Mary Paul, Mignon Duffy, Jennifer Nedelsky, Marcelo Maciel Ramos
Urbanism, Care, and the Built Environment
Chair: Yanping Ni
Speakers: Agata Marzecova, Elke Krasny, Des Fitzgerald
Transfeminist Strikes
Chair: Tania Rispoli
Speakers: Marina Montanelli, Ambra Lancia, Natalia Hernández, Lucí Cavallero, Pierina Ferretti, Colectivo LASTESIS
Queer Care
Chair: Riikka Prattes
Speakers: Pedro Nicoli, Nat Raha, Hil Malatino
Popular Economies
Chair: Alioscia Castronovo
Speakers: Cristina Cielo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Natalia Quiroga, Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Rocio Garzon
Sex-Work and Motherhood
Chair: Pete Sigal
Speakers: Heather Berg, Sophie Lewis (link to Patreon), Jennifer C. Nash, SaeHim Park, Cinnamon Williams
Digital Care & the Human Body
Chair: Susan Craddock
Speakers: Mauro Turrini, Collettivo Ippolita, Clara Fernandez de Bobadilla Munoz, David Rodriguez Mateos, Chloe Sariego
Virtual Care Lab Interactive Workshop
Doc Film Festival & Panel Discussion
Chair: Lauren Henschel
Amber Smith, Jiewei Li, Kate Silver, Amanda Kang, Eleanor Robb, Neil Prose, Rhonda Klevansky
May 14, 2022
Epistemologies of Care
Chair: Riikka Prattes
Speakers: Felwine Sarr, Shay Welch, Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (S/E)
Visual Recording: A Visual Approach
Universal Basic Income & Post-Work
Chair: Dirk Philipsen
Speakers: Jenny Brown, Wilson Sherwin, Syretta Hill, Meyra Coban
Aesthetics & Politics: Technologies of Care
Chair: Shelley Park
Speakers: Kelsey Brod, Padmini Ray Murray, Tania Rispoli
Alternative Approaches to Economics and Labor
Chair: Alicia Girón (E/S)
Speakers: Suzanne Bergeron, Drucilla Barker, Richard Itaman Supriya Routh
Care, Soil, & Non-Human Environment
Chair: Saskia Cornes
Speakers: Kirsten Kurz, R.L. Martens, Saskia Cornes, Lauren Henschel
Final Roundtable: What Does it Mean to Visualize Care?
Chair: Wesley Hogan
Speakers: Anne Allison, Arturo Escobar, Diana Martínez (S) & Moritz Tenthoff (E/S)
Artists in the Exhibition Space
Kate Alexandrite, Archer Boyette, Kelsey Brod, Zara Carpenter, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Devynn Emory, Brittany Green, Kym McDaniel, Zaire McPhearson, Camila Moreiras, Virtual Care Lab, Irupé Tentorio, Denise Shanté Brown, Kirsten Kurz, Lauren Henschel
Organizing Committee
Alioscia Castronovo, Saskia Cornes, Lauren Henschel, Jocelyn Olcott, Riikka Prattes, Mauro Turrini, Tania Rispoli