Who Cares? Feminist Art Festival – The Right Distance
Festival about Care work
As human beings we want to care and to be cared for to remain related to others. Under the title The Right Distance, the second edition of the Who Cares? Feminist Art Festival invites artists, activists and cultural workers to reflect on the interstitial space that is created between the caregiver and the cared-for.
Care is usually regarded from the perspective of the caregiver as something that is given to or done for another living being. This approach forgets the vital role of the cared-for in maintaining this relationship. With The Right Distance the festival reinforces the idea of care as a relationship between two parties that are equally responsible for staying in relatedness, even though their roles are different. Moving away from the paternalistic approach of care that is based on projections and principles, care as a relational practice depends upon the one-caring as well as the cared-for being in a state of receptivity in which the right distance is constantly actualized.
With seven exhibition pieces, nine workshops, seventeen performances, two talks and further inclusive formats as well as more than 600 visitors, the festival in September 2022 contributed to an overarching reflection on care work.
Link to the web: whocares-berlin.org/
A project by
iCollective e.V.
Curation and Artistic Direction
Valeria Schwarz
Exhibition Design
Carla Isern
Assistance / Production
Lorène Blanche Goesele
Assistance / Art Mediation
Marie Benthin
Graphic Design
Stephanie Becker
Website
Wies Hermans
Public Relations
Georg Zolchow and Inés Mora
Editing
Svenja Gräfen
Translation DE-EN
Emily Hawkins
Translation EN-DE
Seraphine Peries
Photography
Victoria Tomaschko / Christian Vagt
Video
Johannes Plank
Artists / Mediators
Coven Berlin, Rebekka E. Böhme, Berit Fischer, Svenja Gräfen, Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe, Valeria Graziano & Maddalena Fragnito (Pirate Care), Modjgan Hashemian & Kaveh Ghaemi, The Hologram, Justyna Koeke, Rebecca Korang, Kollektiv(e) Selbstausbeutung (HKS Ottersberg), Ileana Pascalau, Kathleen Rappolt, Dirk Sorge, Valeria Schwarz / Arturo Martínez Steele, Janosch Krotz / Olivia Szczypek, Über den Tellerrand, Rolling THF Radio, Steven Solbrig, Rosmarie Weinlich, Mareike Wenzel, Johanna Fröhlich Zapata
Supported by
Spartenoffene Förderung (Berlin) and Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin)
Berlin, GER, 2022