Sharing Care - Call for Participants
https://www.neme.org/blog/sharing-care-call
On 23-25 February 2023, NeMe in Limassol, Cyprus, will be leading a 3 day training school entitled Sharing Care: the relationship between Art and Social Care.
This training school will contribute to the production of an accessible and easily comprehensible Toolkit of Care for cultural and care workers, focusing on the role of the arts and artists in or providing care.
We aim to achieve this collaborative effort via presentations by individuals with expertise in the theoretical concerns of care combined with valuable “hands on” experience and concerns provided by social care and cultural workers who have implemented programs of care or participated in them. Together, we anticipate that these exchanges and resultant discussions will lead to more innovative, accessible and non-monetised alternative tools for real and sustainable implementation into local art and wider communities.
The existing crisis of the welfare system has resulted in many people being deliberately excluded making it a serious social and political problem. On the other hand, digital applications focusing on care are available only to internet connected groups, but also raise privacy concerns. An alternative movement has seen people turn to more common ways of organising care themselves such as the solidarity movement of community clinics and pharmacies in Greece. 1 Unfortunately these commoning practises are to a large extent, marginalised and criminalised by governments.
Some areas of interest:
- The implementation of care by cultural workers with migrant groups, refugees, unemployed or other disadvantaged people.
- Music activities, Interactive Theatre, or Drama-based interventions for Social Emotional Learning.
- An ethical and political vision of care and the feminist concern with emotional and devalued labour.
- New media applications, IoT, or other projects, by artists focusing on social care.
- The limits of the law in care.
This training school will be comprised of both theoretical presentations and participation in 3 care activities led by artists. The precise format of the three day event will be decided after the final selection has been made.
Deadline for applications: 21 January 2023
We invite participants from the following fields of study: art including cinema, participatory practices, critical arts practices, media arts, music, theatre plus, anthropology, philosophy, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and social care.
Who can apply?
Practitioners/researchers of any nationality or place of residency affiliated with an academic or other legal entity 2 in one of these countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Republic of North Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, as well as in one of the EU Member States Outermost Regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Reunion Island and Saint-Martin, Azores and Madeira, and the Canary Islands).
International participants shall have their travel expenses reimbursed (up to €500 for long-distance travel – unless otherwise arranged with the organisers – and up to €600 to cover accommodation and subsistence) according to COST travel reimbursement rules (pdf).
This training school is part of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)-funded project: TOOLKIT OF CARE (TOC), CA21102.
About TOC
TOC is an international project led by an interdisciplinary group of creative practitioners, academics, researchers and arts organisations that specialise in creative technologies and have considerable experience in the production and dissemination of this kind of knowledge across Europe and internationally, who have come together to form a “critical network of care.” The network collaborates to share their collective expertise and technical knowledge employed in creative ways to develop knowledge and methodologies of care. The main aim is to produce a well formulated and integrated TOOLKIT OF CARE comprising articles, prototypes, audiovisual documentation, technical manuals, theoretical analysis, and data. It will act as a model of how to successfully share knowledge and expertise across different geographical regions and social groups.
Notes
- Iro Evlampidou and Manolis Kogevidas. "Solidarity outpatient clinics in Greece: a survey of a massive social movement." Gaceta Sanitaria, Volume 33, Issue 3, May–June 2019. doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta… .12.001
- A non-exhaustive list of examples of such an affiliation: work contract, enrolment in a PhD or Post-Doctoral programme, voluntary service in a NGO, and Emeritus professorship.
Application
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Send a brief statement in English regarding your participation proposal, and your CV in one pdf using the form below.
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