Care Aesthetics and the Arts

Kate Maguire-Rosier is Assistant Professor in Disability Arts at Maastricht University, Netherlands.Réka Polonyi is an artist and research fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester and co-director of The Care Lab, UK.

• Preface by Maurice HamingtonIntroductionPart 1Starting points1. Tentative temporalities: enacting and performing care in a site-responsive arts festival designed for public hospital healthcare workers2. Reimagining Humanitarianism: Care Aesthetics, Relational Voice and the Global Politics of Theatre3. An Ode to Playgrounds: play, unruliness and care in the art of playgroundology4. Caring for Music, What Can We Find? Gentle methods for researching the aesthetics of care in later life settingsArtistic InterludeCare Anaesthesia – Notes on care and lovePart 2Retelling 5. Look at him: A care ethics and aesthetics approach to stillbirth and late termination of pregnancy foetal abnormalities6. ‘Crossing the line’: The precarious care aesthetics of access in Australian dance theatre work, Off The Record7. This Stuff Matters: curating and caring for the histories and material culture of homelessnessArtistic InterludeCare Index: Collaborative Movement Practices for Enacting CarePart 3Maintaining8. ‘The joy, the laughter, the chaos’: care aesthetics as foundational for communicating the work of community arts organisations9. On the art of Khidmat: political afterlives of Muslim women’s everyday care practices10. The Careful Art of Mending (Public) Things: Reflections on the aesthetics of ordinary maintenance11. The Aesthetics of Caring for CountryArtistic InterludeThe Rhythm of Our Lives: a poetic autoethnography on navigating queer motherhood in healthcare spacesPart 4Negotiating12. Crafting Intimacy: Towards a collaborative practice of careful art in the stage and screen industries13. Ambient Jam: multisensory improvisation, radical relationships and ‘deep hanging out’: tracing reciprocal care with a differently disabled/abled ensemble14. Found Performance: Towards a Musical Methodology of Care15. Care aesthetic lessons from an artist’s residency in a Dutch academic research institutePart 5Troubling16. The Facing Out project: A Case Study17. Care Aesthetics and TimeSlips Storytelling in Dialogue: Facilitating More Equitable Sensory Artistry within a Dementia Unit18. It matters that you’re herePostscript: Letter to the editors from Fred and Sophie Dixon