1st Edition
Care Aesthetics and the Arts
Preface by Maurice Hamington
Introduction
James Thompson, Réka Polonyi and Kate Maguire-Rosier
Starting points
1. Tentative temporalities: enacting and performing care in a site-responsive arts festival designed for public hospital healthcare workers
Nitin Vengurlekar, Bryoni Trezise, Meg Mumford, Michael Balfour, Adam Hulbert, Jodi Brooks and Emery Schubert
2. Reimagining Humanitarianism: Care Aesthetics, Relational Voice and the Global Politics of Theatre
Fiona Robinson
3. An Ode to Playgrounds: play, unruliness and care in the art of playgroundology
Réka Polonyi
4. Caring for Music, What Can We Find? Gentle methods for researching the aesthetics of care in later life settings
Artistic Interlude
Care Anaesthesia – Notes on care and love
Part 2
Retelling
5. Look at him: A care ethics and aesthetics approach to stillbirth and late termination of pregnancy foetal abnormalities
Iris Parra Jounou
6. ‘Crossing the line’: The precarious care aesthetics of access in Australian dance theatre work, Off The Record
Kate Maguire-Rosier
7. This Stuff Matters: curating and caring for the histories and material culture of homelessness
Nadine Holdsworth
Artistic Interlude
Care Index: Collaborative Movement Practices for Enacting Care
Part 3
Maintaining
8. ‘The joy, the laughter, the chaos’: care aesthetics as foundational for communicating the work of community arts organisations
Kirste Vandergiessen, Tully Barnett and Sarah Peters
9. On the Art of Khidmat: Political afterlives of Muslim women’s everyday care practices
Alisha Ibkar
10. The Careful Art of Mending (Public) Things: Reflections on the aesthetics of ordinary maintenance
Sophie Bourgault
11. The Aesthetics of Caring for Country
Artistic Interlude
The Rhythm of Our Lives: a poetic autoethnography on navigating queer motherhood in healthcare spaces
Negotiating
12. Crafting Intimacy: Towards a collaborative practice of careful art in the stage and screen industries
Helen Shutt
13. Ambient Jam: multisensory improvisation, radical relationships and ‘deep hanging out’: tracing reciprocal care with a differently disabled/abled ensemble
Rebecca Swift
14. Found Performance: Towards a Musical Methodology of Care
Stuart Wood
15. Care aesthetic lessons from an artist’s residency in a Dutch academic research institute
Tom Maassen and Marjolein Baars
Troubling
16. The Facing Out project: A Case Study
Lucy Burscough
17. Care Aesthetics and TimeSlips Storytelling in Dialogue: Facilitating More Equitable Sensory Artistry within a Dementia Unit
Janet Gibson and Meg Mumford
18. It matters that you’re here
Claire Cunningham in conversation with Luke Pell
Postscript: Letter to the editors from Fred and Sophie Dixon
Biography
Kate Maguire-Rosier is Assistant Professor in Disability Arts at Maastricht University, Netherlands.
Réka Polonyi is an artist and research fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester and co-director of The Care Lab, UK.
