Care for reading about caring for artists? Explore how we can all care more for access needs, bids for care, and boundaries in artist care work.

Join Collective Reading with multimedia performance artist body_hacker / Sall Lam Toro.

As part of HAUT’s facilitation of soft and generous residencies, we have learned about artist care and Care Riders through body_hacker / SALL LAM TORO and credit them with developing a Care Rider Template, which we now use to invite all our visiting artists to elaborate upon their access needs, bids for care, and boundaries, while in residency. 

Over two evenings, Sall invites us into a space of slowing down and contemplation. We will listen to audio material and meditate, read, reflect and dive together into passages from books that underpin their Care Rider Template: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. You are not required to have read the texts before, as you will be reading excerpts from the books together, collectively.

In each session, Sall will zoom in on embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, class, economy and ability and how these affect the ways we navigate the art and culture field while working under racial capitalism and patriarchy. Each evening is mainly focused on reading but there will be an expansion of the material through listening to audio as well as a space for discussion and guided

COLLECTIVE PRACTICE – ARTIST CARE aims to help us – artists and institutions alike – develop a common vocabulary and a conceptual framework to better identify our challenges. The idea is that we must be able to name our needs in order to be able to address and accommodate them, and at HAUT we believe that it is necessary to recognize differences in order to work towards social justice.