Exhibition

On Illness, Resistance and Modes of Collective (Health) Care

14 Oct 2021 – 14 Nov 2021

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

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DISTRICT Berlin

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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Curated by Andrea Caroline Keppler in cooperation with Ferdiansyah Thajib, Nino Halka, Johanna Ekenhorst and Nuray Demir

About

Artists and participants: Johanna Ackva, Nuray Demir, Discoteca Flaming Star (CGB, Sara Pereira, Sofia Lomba, WM), Eugen Januschke (denkmal PositHIV e.V.), Queer Indonesian Archive, Rully Malay (Waria Crisis Center), Karin Michalski & Ann Cvetkovich, Clara Moenchswald, Kallia Kefala, Todd Lanier Lester (Luv til’ it hurts), Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Sophie Utikal, Inga Zimprich (Feminist Health Care Research Group), a.o.

Our personal stories are closely linked to experiences of exhaustion, crises, illness, loss, injury and exclusion. These lived and embodied experiences and the feelings associated with them resemble constantly transforming landscapes – and the search for forms of dealing with them is permeated by a continuous struggle and failure.  We want to make these manifold feelings (more) visible as something shared.
In the exhibition and the archive, we bring together artistic and activist positions that propose or practice alternative forms and relational modes of self-care, of caring for and with and with one another. The exhibition provides initial, fragmentary insights into the current research processes. (Auto)biographical archives are opened, personal and collective experiences are remembered, shared as knowledge and exchanged. The growing archive houses the audio-visual conversation series Intimate Talks, traces of the performative event series as well as documents and research materials.
The 4 thematic fields #1 (Bad) Feelings, #2 Collective Kinship and Care#3 Solidary and Self-organised (Health) Care and #4 Memory and Care Activism fields are an attempt to approach the constellations and entanglements interwoven within them.

The starting point for #1 (Bad) Feelings is Karin Michalski’s work The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (2012), in which Ann Cvetkovich explains and reinterprets terms from A to Z such as depression, but also everyday negative feelings, such as the idea of being stuck, being overwhelmed or not being enough. She suggests how these feelings can be collectively felt as “public feelings” and politicised in the context of neoliberal labour relations, homophobia and racism.
In #2 Collective Kinship and Care we would like to explore the question of what alternative artistic forms of collective care models exist that are not solely based on the biological family and the so-called care and health care system.
Cluster #3 Solidary and Self-organised (Health) Care is dedicated to self-organised practices and infrastructures of solidarity in the field of health, while in #4 Memory and Care Activism we will explore how remembering histories and ongoing struggles of collective organising in the field of HIV/AIDS activism can help us to think further about contemporary experiences and structures in health care

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