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In this session, we explore how care – in all its forms – can once again be approached as a collective practice. In our society, care has become increasingly privatized: illness, childcare, recovery from burnout, caring for an elderly parent or a friend – all are viewed as individual matters and are (often) addressed individually through informal care, within the family, or via personal support trajectories.

 

But what can and should change in our collective practice, and what could find a place within it? Current social, economic, and cultural structures are still largely based on the traditional nuclear family as the norm – but what can we do together? How can care take a central role, and how can that ensure that there is a place for everyone?

 

Theater Utrecht and Flemish cultural center de Brakke Grond invite artists, organizations, and cultural workers to share examples from their artistic practices. How can we create space for collective forms of care in our working methods? And what does this ask of the structures in the performing arts sector – from working relationships to residency models, from touring rhythms to policy frameworks?