Creating Cultures of Care

As a faculty member, educational program director and program developer, my repeated travels through European and North American higher art education landscapes provide the experiential data to explore a care ethics approach to artistic research and reflection. In my contribution, I present my multimodal, interdisciplinary practice combining various mediums that generate sceneries of living the care ethic. I use collage, watercolor, drawing and photography, plus reading, observing, documenting and reflecting. These mediums are practiced iteratively and heuristically, unfolding through detours and allurements, meandering around the object of study, like traveling through a landscape, avoiding reliance on essentialism and representation. These unfinalized productions are not metaphors or representations, but can be seen as materialized, temporal experiences where the poetic, the real, and the imaginary interconnect and where gradually, a landscape is sketched in. In my contribution, referring to grant-funded programs, like Creating Cultures of Care, I reflect on how these sceneries of living emerged, fostering self-reflexivity and exploring positionalities and relationalities in socio-political landscapes.