SHARING CARE is an interdisciplinary WG (Working Group) comprising creative industry experts, researchers, partner NGOs, as well as ad-hoc actors from local/international communities, forming a trans-national practice-led community of care pivoting on ways to be critically creative with the latest technological advancements in a number of different subfields.

It will foster knowledge creation and exchange amongst the group’s members, and disseminate knowledge to the benefit of local and international communities. Collectively, the results of the activities organised by this WG will inform the work of the remaining three WGs. More specifically: shared methodologies of critically exhibiting and performing care in relation to WG 2 (Exhibiting & Performing Care), and the development of a joint research agenda around the topic of critical care in collaboration in relation to WG3 (Theory of Care) and WG4 (Researching and Archiving Care).

WG1 will particularly target creative practitioners, ECIs and communities in Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITC). International researchers and actors affiliated to universities and cultural institutions, will work with peers from ITC countries to share expertise and transfer knowledge, which can inform culture, research, and technology on a local level.

Documentation of the WG1 – Training School “Speculative Sound Circuits”, where participants explored playful and experimental approaches to creating sound performances through the speculative combination of diverse objects and technologies.

Care in Visual and Performing Arts group consists of creative technology festivals organisers, creative industry actors, performance platforms, exhibition spaces, and cultural NGOs.

Members will work as a team to explore how the Network can best function as a platform of care through exchange of knowledge and the development of common methodologies around a critical presentation of Care to audiences. The WG will discuss, analyse, and seek to bring to the forefront the various positions and curatorial strategies and methodologies through the continuing exchange of the WG members’ ongoing research on diverse creative initiatives, ranging from established institutions to community initiatives with emphasis on talks, discursive events and documentation.

Working Group 3 gathers a network of researchers, artists, educators, and activists who collaborate to explore emerging transformations of care practices. We examine the intersection of vital material and social infrastructures of care, solidarity and social reproduction, applying critical analysis and creative experimentation to enact shifts in the ways we think, feel and act. Our work includes conversations, workshops, public talks, and other forms of creative self-organization. We hope to contribute to ongoing efforts to build more equitable, just and sustainable ways of living together.

Our explorations focus on these questions: how can we re-imagine the politics of care in a context of multicrisis? How is care experienced, practiced and enacted in conditions of oppression, when does it take on the registers of resistance and refusal? How can we move towards an ethical landscape of care and connection across human and non-human life? How do we build and sustain practices of communal care?