Ecologies of Care is a group of curators, artists, architects, and researchers convened by Urška Jurman and Elke Krasny in 2021. Taking the meanings of curare – to care and to cure – which form the etymological root of the word “curating”, we approach interdependencies in care as ethico-political and corpo-material relations, and we pay special attention to new modes of art and cultural practice that enable meaningful social and environmental encounters and that create lasting and transformative relations. Bringing together practices of maintenance and repair, multispecies ethics, social reproduction theory, public pedagogies, critical heritage studies, feminist infrastructural critique, and hydrofeminist engagements as well as the rights of humans and of nature, ecologies of care aspire to new public imaginaries of care. The network has its epicenter and funding in Slovenia, from the Igor Zabel Association for Art and Culture.

Project link: https://ecologiesofcare.org/about