READING GROUP III

At the initiative of WP 2 and WP 5, Irena Charwilska, Rick Dolphijn and Raul Matta set up a monthly close-reading seminar📖 which will be used to give rise to the key concepts of the CONVIVIUM PROJECT, to read those texts in which it is creatively launched and to get inspiration from artworks that somehow deal with these issues and make us think.

The third reading seminar, chaired by Irena Chawrilska from the University of Gdańsk, focused on the CARE concept. We read the article by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, ‘Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care.

In an intense group discussion, we reflected on the history of the concept of care. We considered what the author of the text teaches us about care as a method and how this kind of approach could be implemented within the Convivium project. We also talked about care as an ethical obligation that stems from the ontological entanglement of human beings in a network of dependencies and intra-relations. We concluded that building empathetic, convivial communities requires us to create new concerned and resilient narratives, stories that matter. We are looking for new ways to talk about the world. So, we read excerpts from Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel speech, watched the short film “Banquet” and discussed the Pos-industrial Eden exhibition recently completed in Gdansk at the New Museum of Art NOMUS (https://www.mng.gda.pl/wystawy/postindustrialny-eden/) to rethink our ideas form the glocal perspective.