Terrains of Care

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Project Art Works invites you to Terrains of Care explores the intersections between art and care in Spain and the UK through artistic practices and their relationship with complex care needs, disability and neurodivergence.

Where do the worlds of art and care intersect? What is the role of cultural institutions in solving society’s problems?

Wednesday 18th October, 14.00 – 15.00 (no booking necessary), ResidentialExhibition Space, Ground Floor, Baltic

Contributors: Carlota Mir (Curator) and Carlos Almela (Curator)

Based on their ongoing research on the intersections of (health)care, disability and neurodivergence with artists Costa Badía and Project Art Works, curators Carlota Mir and Carlos Almela’s performative lecture will connect voice, film, text and visual materials from several practices and contemporary artists based in Spain. Bringing together these voices, we will propose a nuanced vision of care that bonds together artistic practices moving between the realms of the painful, the joyful and the political.

Conversation: Accessibility, Disability and Neurodivergence

Wednesday 18th October, 18.30 – 20.30, book at eventbrite.co.uk, Level 1, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Contributors: María Acaso (Museo Reina Sofia), Kate Adams (Project Art Works), Andrea Philips (BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University), Amanda McMahon (Baltic), Emma Dean (Baltic), Claire White (Artist)

This event examines and challenging conventional notions of care by looking at the crossover between communities and social systems of care, which both enable and disable people.

The panel will discuss: Where do the worlds of art and care intersect? And what is the role of cultural institutions in solving society’s problems?

Los Museos Son Para Sentarse – performance and live translation 

Thursday 19th October, 13.30 – 16.00, Please book at eventbrite.co.uk, Residentialworkshop space, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Contributors: Costa Badía (Artist), Carlota Mir (Curator), Carlos Almela (Curator)

The workshop will consist of a collective live translation of Costa Badía’s book Los Museos No Son Para Sentarse (Museums are not places for sitting). In this short essay, the crip artist shares her perspective on life as a disabled artist, exploring topics such as access, empathy, sexuality, mental health, autonomy, and care. The act of translating together in a live setting will provide an opportunity to share experiences of how artistic institutions enable and disable bodies.

Spanish is not required to participate in the session, but it is welcome. Non-verbal publics are also welcome. With chromosome biscuits brought from Spain !

For biographies of all the conributors please click here.

Supported by Acción Cultural Española.

This event is part of the programme running alongside the Project Art Works exhibition Residential, now open at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, open till 25 Febraury 2024.