C.A.R.E. Programme
The C.A.R.E. Program (Collaboratory in Active Regenerative Ecologies) is a bioregion-specific, moving, durational installation that cultivates stewardship with the river, land, humans and more-than-humans through eco-centric, eco-feminist and indigenous lenses. It considers art as vessel for transformation, and transformation as art’s objective—it is a performative project framed within regenerative practices with land and people.
The program’s overall objective is to recalibrate ourselves with estuarian 'blue commons' as convivial co-inhabitants of any bioregion. Through performative acts of non-innocent care and meaning-making, C.A.R.E. integrates artistic and regenerative stewardship practices, systems thinking and complexity theory, transforming estuaries into open-air performance and transformational spaces.
While at it, CARE redresses the existing gap between modernist art practices and a decolonial, open and multispecies stance for interconnectedness and regenerativity by adopting an itinerant human+more-than-human performative stance instead of the traditional static one (specific site/dates of performance; human performer and human audience roles).