Cultures in Conversation | Interdependence in Action: Practices of Care and Commoning

Practices of Care and Commoning

This conversation between thinkers and practitioners across different geopolitical realities will revolve around the concept of interdependence and how it can play an active part in rethinking the constitutive role of institutions, architecture, art or public health infrastructures. Concrete examples will be discussed about how can one nurture practices of care, what an ecology of a caring practice means, and when and on what terms can it be understood as a sustainable practice. Many sources and tools for thinking and working with the concept of interdependence reside in situated knowledges drawn from millennium old healing, ecological, divination and other communal practices. The invited speakers will explore in what ways these gestures could be part of a larger movement that rethinks our systems of production, distribution and mutual solidarity especially in the domain of contemporary art.