Images of Care Collective

Images of Care Collective is a space curated for, and by, anthropologists, image-makers, healthcare practitioners and anyone else with an interest for or an experience with matters of care and its entanglements with imagination, images and technologies of vision. Through this initiative, we hope to foster, as well as render more inclusive and sustainable, a dialogue that can responsibly hint at an emergent future scenario of human and more-than-human care. Moving beyond oversimplifying distinctions between researchers and practitioners as well as between visual and text-based work, we aim to bring together everyone who is eager to experiment with manifold ways in which visual approaches, methods and techniques can help reimagine and responsibly intervene in current relations of (more-than-human) care.

Acknowledging the productivity of care as an “unstable concept” (Buch 2015) and united around Hal Foster’s (1988:ix) definition of visual culture as a terrain characterized by dialogues between biology, culture and politics (“how we see, how we are able, allowed, or made to see, and how we see this seeing or the unseen therein”) we hope to provide a platform for a collective interrogation of  visual assumptions – tacit or explicit- that shape manifold ways in which we craft the stories of illness and other forms of suffering as well as of healing, caregiving, care-receiving, death and grief. Through iterative and open-ended practice we not only want to put analytical pressure on the concepts of “care” and “vision” but also to keep such an interrogation constantly troubled, excited and excitable.

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Barbara Pieta and Paolo SH Favero