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PICA Day 24

Have had a bit of a rough day. Received an email from Sue of my Elena with a huge butterfly landed on her little 4 year old nose. I miss her and Felix terribly. Having my babies living on the other side of the planet while doing an exploration of care feels horrifyingly perverse. Very visceral and harsh realisation of interspecies difference - I would give up the care of these organisms and even my own cat in a second to care for my human babies.

Louie came in without her four foster children and we talked for a long time about caring for children that aren’t your biological offspring and the challenges of our institutional relationships.

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a durational live performance
by tarsh bates
curated by Megan Schlipalius

PICA
3 September - 30 October 2011
Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm

how do we change when we care for other bodies?

What does it mean to care for fruit flies, slime mold, daphnia, hydra, or soil nematodes in a gallery? Is it possible to develop a different relationship between Candida albicans (commonly known as thrush) and humans by caring for it? How do we care for creatures that are not cute, furry or even visible? Is it appropriate – or ethical – to contain organisms in glass terrariums and keep them for our own purposes, aesthetic, cultural, educational or scientific? These are just some of the questions under investigation…

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