schedule
Thursday
23 January 2025
15:30 - 16:30 | Walk-in, Refreshments & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium
16:30 - 16.40 | Welcome by Joke van Saane, Rector of the University of Humanistic Studies steyl
16:40 - 17.00 | “Life Lines: On Labyrinths of Care”, Opening address by Louis van den Hengel steyl
17:00 - 17:45 | “Living Off Landscape: Re-connecting with Vitality in Care”, Plenary by Merel Visse steyl
17:45 - 18:00 | Short Break
18:00 - 18:30 | “Callisthenics: Stories of Support, Aversion, and Love”, Performance by Paloma Bouhana, Henny Dörr & Philippine Hoegen lounge KonneKt
18:30 - 18:45 | Short Break
18:45 - 21:00 | Dinner and Free Time restaurant KonneKt
21:00 - 22:00 | “Gravity and Care”, Plenary by Christine Leroy steyl
Friday
24 January 2025
08:30 - 09:00 | Reception & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium
09:00 - 10:00 | “Care Aesthetics”, Plenary by James Thompson steyl
10:00 - 10:30 | Break
| “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage: The ‘Parricida’ Performance as an Act of Care and Resistance”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
10:30 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 1
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 1 Re-Imagining Care through Artistic, Creative-Led Practice Research: A Multifaceted Panel
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 1 Care Beyond Repair?
tanzania
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 1 Practicing Care in Art, Activism, and Academia
angola
Embedding & Governing
Panel 1 The Challenges of Care in a Blues and Jazz Archive
ghana
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 1 Moving With Care: “Switchy” Methodologies for Transformative Queer Street Performance
botswana
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 1 Kintsugi: The Art of Unfolding the Unknown
congo
10:30 - 11:00 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
11:15 - 11:45 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch restaurant KonneKt
12:45 - 13:15 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
13:15 - 14:45 | Parallel Sessions 2
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 2 Caring and the Art of Perceiving
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 2 Caring in Action, Connection, and Community
tanzania
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 2 Udderly Queer: An Artistic Exploration of Trans*Species Care Ethics
angola
Embedding & Governing
Panel 2 Exploring Care as Pedagogical and Organizational Principle in Arts Education
ghana
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 2 The Weight of Care: Artistic Knowing and Un/doing
botswana & lounge KonneKt
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 2 Roots of Reciprocity: Cultivating Care and Restoration
congo
13:15 - 14:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required
14:45 - 15:15 | Break
| “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
15:15 - 16:45 | Parallel Sessions 3
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 3 Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of Repair
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 3 Re-imagining Death, Dying, Loss, and Grief
tanzania
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 3 Endurers
angola
Embedding & Governing
Panel 3 Designing for Care: Interdependency, Relational Design, and Affirmative Ethics
ghana
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 3 Imagination Work: Transforming Care through Poetry, Drawing, and Dance
congo
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 3 Ecologies of Care: Collaborative Practices in Human and More-Than-Human Environments
botswana & stairwell
16:30 – 17:00 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required
16:45 - 17:00 | Short Break
17:00 - 18:30 | Per/forming Care: New Visions and Imaginings
My Mother’s Material Bax & Bax (live performance)
steyl
253 ways to care Merel Visse (video installation & meet the artist)
steyl
Meaningful Artistic Research (exhibition curated by Marieke Folkers)
steyl
Out of Love, Out of Necessity Tjitske Sluis (photography exhibition & meet the artist)
steyl
The Beauty and Power of the Uniform in Theatre and Medicine Nora Korfker & Lotte van den Berg (live performance)
congo
Callisthenics: Stories of Support, Aversion, and Love Paloma Bouhana, Henny Dörr & Philippine Hoegen (live performance)
lounge KonneKt
| The Loneliness of Illness Truus Teunissen (sculpture group & meet the artist) |
hallway
Reclaiming Maternal Lineage: The ‘Parricida’ Performance as an Act of Care and Resistance, Zoya Sardashti (discussion with participants & meet the artist)
botswana
| Will You Carry Me?!, Nina Goedegebure (meet the artist) |
komfortzone
18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner restaurant Konnek
20:30 - 22:00 | Film Screening: “Human Forever”, an independent film by Teun Toebes & Jonathan de Jong steyl
20:30 – 22:00 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required
Saturday
25 January 2025
08:30 - 08:30 | Reception & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium
08:30 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions 4
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 4 An Ethico-Aesthetics of Care: Rethinking Care Theory
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 4 Beyond Reparation and Critique: Relational Encounters with Disability and Care
tanzania
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 4 Embodied Ethics and Care Aesthetics: Feminist, Trans*, and Queer Interventions
angola
Embedding & Governing
Panel 4 Caring Infrastructures
ghana
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 4 Worldmaking with Eco-Social Public Art
botswana
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 4 Care for the Other-Than-Human: Earthly, Oceanic, and Cellular Engagements
congo
10:00 - 10:15 | Short Break
10:15 - 11:45 | Parallel Sessions 5
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 5 Caring Relationalities and the Arts of Attention
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 5 CineCare Deliberation
botswana
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 5 Deviant Aesthetics and Gestures of Care: Reading Contemporary Visual Art, Film, and Performance
angola
Embedding & Governing
Panel 5 Arts in Care: Creative Practices at the Crossroads of Culture and Health
congo
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 5 Care-full Critique of Current Clothing Repair Landscapes
tanzania
10:15 - 11:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required
11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch restaurant KonneKt
13:00 - 14:00 | “Care Aesthetics and Its Relation to Care Ethics”, Plenary Roundtable by Tom Maassen (moderator: Tineke Abma) steyl
14:00 - 14:15 | Short Break
14:15 - 15:45 | Parallel Sessions 6
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 6 Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design in Dementia Care
mozambique
Understanding & Changing
Panel 6 The CARE Aesthetics Research Exploration Project
tanzania
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 6 Caring Democracies?
ghana
Embedding & Governing
Panel 6 Endurers
angola
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 6 Art in Caring Spaces: Creative Transformation through Narrative, Performance, and Visual Design
botswana
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 6 MAYBE | Co-creative Collaborations with Palliative Cancer Patients: A Transdisciplinary Tale from the Artist's Perspective
congo
14:15 - 15:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required
15:45 - 16:00 | Closing steyl
Location
23-25 January 2025
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Amersfoortsestraat 20
3769 AS Soesterberg
Online
23-25 January 2025
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Amersfoortsestraat 20
3769 AS Soesterberg
Online
30-31 January 2025 (Zoom links to be published later)
Contact info Louis van den Hengel
Images homepage: Merel Visse, Christine Leroy
design website: Johanne de Heus and Marielle Schuurman