Participants (in alphabetical order): Bihter Almaç, Priyanka Bista, The Bonita Chola AKA Angela Camacho, Malé Luján Escalante, Carl Golembeski, Lizzie Harrison, Farzana Khan, Luke Moffat, Jamie Perera, Marco Perry, Ruth Potts, Aslıhan Şenel, Love SSega, Felipe Viveros, Keir Williams
With special thanks to Gemma Blackshaw and Elio Caccavale
Academic Advisor: Dr Jana Scholze Curator: Naiyi Wang
Exhibition Manager: Siwei Li Communications Manager: Shuyun Cao
Exhibition Design:
Zhou You | Update Studio
Juntian Dai | ZaoRuì Design
Visual Design:
Ye Qian | Y(17) Studio
Special Support: Beying Tech Inc. Ecological Collaborator: MOOVI
The Care Pavilion offers fertile ground for carefully considering ‘Care’ through multiple forms, dimensions and perspectives. It is a living collection of incentives to re-imagine the politics and ethics of care by interdisciplinary designers, architects, thinkers, activists, scholars, healers and cultural practitioners from the Global South and Global North.
Care is ubiquitous, yet it is in a state of extreme crisis. Since 2020, the word ‘Care’ has taken on a very acute meaning in the global pandemic’s ‘state of exception’. The concepts of care – ‘caring for’, ‘caring about’, ‘caring with’ resonate in many spheres. The world has experienced ‘a discursive explosion of care’, but collective care is barely put into practice. It’s essential to respond to these ever present yet newly urgent matters of care: thinking through care in its many forms—of humans and nonhumans—while addressing its intricacies.
The Care Pavilion invites interdisciplinary designers, architects, thinkers, activists, scholars, healers and cultural practitioners from the Global South and Global North to respond to “Care”, using the Biennale as a testing ground to re-imagine the politics and ethics of care.
The Care Pavilion manifests through a Care manifesto, Collective-care initiatives and ‘Care-full’ practices, where care—in all its complexities—will be re-imagined and re-collectivised through an intersectional perspective.
The curatorial team behind the Care Pavilion aims to emphasise the necessity of curatorial support (infrastructure) to ensure that caring (whether for, about, or with) can really flourish. The team deploy “curating” —from the Latin word curare, meaning “to care” and “to cure”—as a tool to radically expand and collectively reflect on the notion of care.
The Care Pavilion plays a special role by making many forms of care visible, serving as a practice of collective caring and curing that is accessible to everyone.
