This publication is in most part a collection of papers, conversations and art and design works, which was presented at the symposium Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility, organised by SKOR in Amsterdam in October 2010. The first event is a result from the research project Actors, Agents and Attendants. It took as its theme 'public caring' and asked: "who cares?", "who should care?", and - perhaps most pertinently in a contemporary context - "how might the concept of care be reclaimed through creative practices and proactive engagement from its increasingly apparent consensualized and paternalistic political formulation?".
In Caring Culture the editors have brought together professionals from vastly different fields of knowledge and experience to discuss what we perceive to be a crisis in the formulation and implementation of concepts of care through medicine, art and contemporary politics. They do so as members of the Actors, Agents and Attendants research project. The focus of which is the role of art making and commissioning in the construction and critique of contemporary civility.
Contributors
Include curators, artists, politicians, architects and healthcare professionals: Nils van Beek, Marc Bijl, A.A. Bronson, Beatriz Colomina, Elmgreen & Dragset, Martijn Engelbregt, Fulya Erdemci, Mark Fisher, Margreet Fogteloo, Mika Hannula, Mari Linnman, Marien van der Meer, Markus Miessen, Merijn Oudenampsen, Andrea Phillips, Edi Rama, Robert Sember/Ultra-red, Studio Makkink & Bey, Sally Tallant, Anton Vidokle, Dmitry Vilensky/Chto Delat, Steven de Waal, Huib Haye van de Werf, Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
