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In our contemporary Western societies, the practices that link body and care are embedded in very specific visions of what a body can be and how it can be "treated". Whether in the socio-political, medical, artistic, economic or ecological field, the body is often thought of from a statist, individualistic and objectifying framework.
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Teacher:[[Silvia Mesturini]]
  
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This course proposes to explore a broader vision of the body and care, based on how "doing-body" and "doing-care" are played out between humans and non-humans in traditional non-Western practices. It will question the interweaving of the "art of caring" with the production of artifacts of pragmatic value, the use of (rendered) organic tools and the collective staging of beings such as plants, songs, spirits, mountains and living pharmacopoeias. In other words, how can what are understood in the West as artistic practices become a savoir-faire, an ecology of the body, which cares for and otherwise makes social, political and affective bodies? How do the vulnerabilities of individual, collective and ecological bodies come together in the defense of arts in struggle? Experiences from field practices around care will allow us to explore theories from the philosophy of care and the anthropology of the body, with an emphasis on feminist and decolonial perspectives.
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The course explores, through experiences and anthropological writings, broadened and decentralized approaches and understandings of the body and care. The somatic practices that make and unmake bodies, people and collectives will serve as a starting point for thinking about relational modes that challenge an extractivist and epistemologically murderous modernity. It will be about bodies constructed, deconstructed, abused, cared for, intoxicated, polluted, ingested, digested, rooted, decomposed, through practices that open and close, compose and decompose bodies and their borders. We will question the continuity of the "materials" which sometimes inhabit, sometimes cross, sometimes emerge from bodies, in particular through the notions of "living materials" and "organic practices", which are located in counterpoint to the usual biological sharing between "living" and "inert". Care will be considered as an ethical, feminist and decolonial horizon, where bodies and care emerge from practices.

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Teacher:Silvia Mesturini

The course explores, through experiences and anthropological writings, broadened and decentralized approaches and understandings of the body and care. The somatic practices that make and unmake bodies, people and collectives will serve as a starting point for thinking about relational modes that challenge an extractivist and epistemologically murderous modernity. It will be about bodies constructed, deconstructed, abused, cared for, intoxicated, polluted, ingested, digested, rooted, decomposed, through practices that open and close, compose and decompose bodies and their borders. We will question the continuity of the "materials" which sometimes inhabit, sometimes cross, sometimes emerge from bodies, in particular through the notions of "living materials" and "organic practices", which are located in counterpoint to the usual biological sharing between "living" and "inert". Care will be considered as an ethical, feminist and decolonial horizon, where bodies and care emerge from practices.

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