We have no art: we do everything as well as we can.
Impulse Academy, Impulse Festival, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, 2022
What if reproduction, rather than production, were at the center of our understanding of art? What if relationships of care enriched artistic collaboration rather than inhibiting it? How do artistic work processes function when they are no longer conceived in neoliberal production logics, but rather as maintenance, as resumption and reconnection? What can art learn from radical care work activists here? And what if we ultimately understood art itself as care work? Would that then be maintenance art?
Together with actors from artistic practice, students, dramaturgy and production, a workshop by andpartnersincrime explored a form of independent theatre that combines art and care work and tested this maintenance art in the urban space of Mülheim.
Free childcare was available throughout the workshops. This is part of the question of how to integrate art and care work!
15.- 18th of Juni 2023, Mühlheim an der Ruhr