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A Transdisciplinary Workshop organized by Hana Gründler and Alejandro Nodarse Jammal, Research Group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut“The world will look different if we move care from its current peripheral location to a place near the center of human life,” wrote Joan Tronto in Moral Boundaries (1993). Three decades later, this workshop takes Tronto’s claim as a point of departure and critical reassessment, asking how care—in its aesthetic, ethical, and political dimensions, from antiquity to the present—has made the world look different. How have individual forms of solace, including those embedded in artistic production and reception, been mobilized toward political ends? When has care, in claiming new ethical potentials, sought to distance itself from earlier aesthetic norms? And when does care of oneself (re)emerge as a form of political dissidence?
Across two days, fourteen speakers approach care and solace as historically contingent and politically fraught. Resisting purely affirmational or presentist accounts, they draw attention to the structures that mediate care: systems of governance and surveillance, regimes of labor and institutionalization, and the shaping of identity along gendered and racialized lines. Together, the speakers offer alternative genealogies of care and solace—and consider their critical futures.
Speakers:
Caterina Borelli
Nanne Buurman
Tatiana Carbonell
Hannah Chodura
Lexington Davis
Jade de Montserrat
Alexandre Diallo
Giovanni Vito Distefano
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Lorenzo Graf
Virginia Marano
Daphne Martin
Paula Muhr
Serena Pacchiani
Photo: Gabriele Stötzer, A hand full, 1982/2024. ©Gabriele Stötzer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 (LOOCK Gallery, Berlin)
This will be a hybrid event.
VENUE
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Firenze, Italia
To participate online please register in advance via Zoom:
https://eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_9JC2j0qQzqtIIa5fJZ2pQ#/registration
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Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei servi 51,Florence, Italy
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