Seminar: Care and Communities, 28 April.
Socially Engaged Art Research group (SEAR) at NTNU is hosting “Care and Communities Seminar”, April 28, at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art.
Date: 28 April
Location: Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst
Attendance: Free and open to all
Lunch: Served for all participants
Care and Communities are two concepts that shape everyday life and artistic and academic practices. The concepts describe spaces of support, belonging, and shared responsibility between different kinds of actors but they also involve imbalances, negotiation, difference, alliances and change.
Rather than assuming what care or community should be, this seminar invites us to explore how these ideas take form in different kinds of contexts and for human and more- than‑human actors.
Through artistic examples, research perspectives, and conversations across disciplines, we will reflect on how care is practiced, how communities are formed, and how these relationships evolve over time.
What does care look like from the standpoint of the communities we work with, and how do we understand our own role within them? How do artistic practices create, sustain, or question forms of community? And in what ways can performative methods help us notice the different dynamics of care that shape our collaborations and shared spaces?
These questions will guide our discussions throughout the day.
The seminar brings together a series of presentations exploring care and community through artistic and academic perspectives. It opens with introductions by Elena Pérez, Ruth Woods, and Carl Martin Faurby, followed by contributions from Selina Busby on political theatre practices in India and Thomas Berker on care, repair, and maintenance. Further presentations include Lise Hovik on ecocentric performance with children, Hanna Musiol on site-specific practices and community rituals, Ine T. Berg on participatory and open-source curating, and a concluding reflection on future caring communities by Ruth Woods and Elena Pérez.
The seminar will be held in English.
Program
09.00–09.30 Coffee and welcome by SEAR — Elena Pérez and Ruth Woods
09.30–10.00 Welcome by Carl Martin Faurby, Director of Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst
10.00–10.40 Finding joyful vulnerability when making political theatre in the streets of Kranti Nagar, India. Selina Busby, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
10.50–11.30 Making care, repair and maintenance visible. Thomas Berker, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
LUNCH BREAK
12.30–13.10 Singing with seeds and howling with wolves: Ecocentric performances with children. Lise Hovik, Professor, Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education
13.10–13.50 From art interventions to community rituals: site‑specific practices for cocreation, reciprocity, and care. Hanna Musiol, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Literature in English, NTNU
COFFEE BREAK
14.00–14.40 Becoming co‑researchers: Exploring open‑source curating in EUphoric Youth. An introduction to participatory inquiry in a Creative Europe context. Ine T. Berg, Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre, NTNU
14.40–15.30 Future Caring Communities. Ruth Woods, Research Professor at Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Elena Pérez, Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre, NTNU.
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