"Have you ever wondered whether caring for your own needs can have something radical about it? Even an important contribution to a caring society?"

We set out with these questions in our artistic research project and asked self-care experts, strolled through drugstores and social media feeds, discussed with activist initiatives and self-help groups and chatted with our friends. We were particularly interested in the ambivalences of self-care between pure survival strategy, consumerism and radical political aspirations. Artistically, we operate at the interface of performative sound art and feminist urban research. In the ada kantine in Frankfurt/Main, we were able to test the first part of the research with listening stations, and in a second part, an audio walk developed from the material.

In the performative audio walk "collective self-care", we invite participants to explore these ambivalences of self-care for themselves by walking and listening. Each participant will do this individually and at the same time in contact with a small reference group of three people, which is only created through walking.

On the interactive website, we collect the voices of participants and interested parties in order to allow the archive to continue to grow and to reflect on the topic from multiple perspectives.

In cooperation with Jana Bleckmann, Marie Deiss and Susanne Hübl
Format: Artistic Research Project/ Audio Walk
Presentation: Offenes Literaturhaus Köln
Fotos: Teilnehmer*innen des Audio-Walks

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