Rob Crosse, Susann Maria Hempel, Stéphanie Lagarde: Politics of Care—Care as Resistance

Join the artist talk on the screening programme Politics of Care. Care as Resistance with curator Anne Bitterwolf and the participating artists Rob Crosse, Susann Maria Hempel and Stéphanie Lagarde. 

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In an age of overlapping ecological, political, and social crisis, the question of care and responsibility takes on enormous significance. Who cares for whom, and under what conditions? How can we think of care beyond normative role models, structural isolation, and exploitation? In light of the climate crisis, wars, growing social inequality, and the profound experiences during the pandemic, one thing is clear: without radically rethinking care work, a more just future cannot be achieved.

The group screening brings together three video works that deal with practices of care. Starting from the private sphere, the works develop perspectives on care beyond the neoliberal burden of personal responsibility and examine how solidarity can be conceived and lived. Susann Maria Hempel and Stéphanie Lagarde address parenthood as a biographical and socio-political space of experience. Rob Crosse’s video is dedicated to intergenerational support in LGBTQI+ communities. All three works radically question the ideal of the heteronormative nuclear family as a universal model of care.