Listening to Voices of Care: What Now and What Next?

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Panel discussion on care in the arts today

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LOCATION

Black Box

DATES

29 Aug, Sat

START/ END TIMEs

12.30 - 2.30pm

Accessibility

Step-free etc.

RATING & Language

Rating NA

ADMISSION

Walk-ins welcome

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Synopsis

Arts workers often grapple with difficult emotions when they work in environments such as hospices or youth residential facilities. As they spark creativity, care and human connection through their work, who offers them care in turn? Join Rosemary (Rosie) McGowan, Grace Low, Faye Lim, Hoo Kuan Cien, and Chong Gua Khee for a conversation moderated by Charlene Rajendran on care in the arts, and the complexities of doing so within performing arts institutions and arts festivals. 

Our panelists come with diverse experiences that touch on creating cultures of care through arts organisations, the planning and execution of CITRUS fest itself, including the new Huddle Puddle programme which discusses the skills and capacities needed to embed care in the arts. Following this, Charlene will lead a collective discussion on how arts practice and practitioners can attend to issues of care and make a difference in the arts landscape.

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About the Arts Workers

Tan Jack Ky (he/him)

Artist

Tan Jack Ky is a UK-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, installation and institutional critique. His practice is an ongoing exploration of social justice that blurs the boundaries between, art, law, governance, and consultancy. Looking toward alternative knowledge systems, Tan interrogates the legacies of empire with a particular interest in Southeast Asian and Tropical epistemologies of resistance. His work attempts to rethink our entanglement with the human and more-than-human worlds, and looks towards alternative ways of living and working.

Photo credit: Tan Jack Ky. 'Art School Surgery' part of How To Do Things With Rules solo exhibition, 2016. ICA Singapore. Wall text handpainted and reproduced from "Corita Kent’s Rules & Hints for Students and Teachers" (lettering by David Mekelburg), https://www.corita.org/tenrules.

Chong Gua Khee (she/her)

Director and Dramaturg

Chong Gua Khee is a director and dramaturg based across Singapore and Helsinki/Finland. She is endlessly curious about so many things, but especially about how your everyday experiences are shaped by societal factors–and how you in turn shape the world around you! 

Photo credit: Shirlene Loo

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