Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care
Edited by:
Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner
and The Promiscuous Care Study Group
With contributions from:
Carla Arcos, Jacquill Basdew, Selma Bellal, Seecum Cheung, Cooking Something Up, Yoeri Guépin, Marc Herbst, Czar Kristoff P., Pablo Lerma, Judith Leijdekkers, Carmen José, Edwin Mingard, Skye Maule-O’Brien, Lola Olufemi, Laurence Rassel, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Reading Room Rotterdam, Kari Robertson, Yusser al Obaidi, Michelle Teran, Renée Turner, and Julia Wilhelm
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288 pages,
82 in color Exposed spine binding.
Book Design by Yusser al Obaidi and Julia Wilhelm.
Poster/Map Illustrations by Carla Arcos.
2024
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Praise for Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care
"This project takes seriously the urgent need to imagine diverse infrastructures of care at every scale of planetary existence."
– The Care Collective, author of The Care Manifesto.
"Feeling alienated because you work in an uncaring art school, university, or cultural institution? Then Promiscuous Infrastructures is for you!”
– Dr. Marquard Smith, founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture
"Insisting that infrastructure does not only act on bodies, but that bodies act with and through infrastructure, this collection’s lively thinking provides new words and new pedagogies for radically re-imagining the making and the use of infrastructures.” – Elke Krasny, author of Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care
Promiscuous Infrastructure asks...
How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives?
Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures, and situates care within a genealogy of artistic and social practice
Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care
Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributors—art and social practitioners, researchers, and educators—who have been researching and writing about caring infrastructures and promiscuous care for the past several years. This interdisciplinary publication comprises essays, visual schematics and scores, personal letters, recipes, and conversations, which emerge from the work of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
Promiscuous Infrastructures calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another within and beyond the shared context of a structurally dispassionate institution that requires innovation, expediency, and accountable results. The promiscuity it explores is defined by a collective refusal of efficiency, and favors generosity, care, love, and attention. Together, the group and their interlocutors address themes ranging from institutional change, communal responsibility and accountability practices, mental health and collective care, hospitality and hosting, soil, counter-histories, intergenerational learning, joy and collective grief and the poetics of imagining otherwise.
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