Imagining what a radical

(child)care politics

might look like: 

Connective practices in Brasil-Cyprus, 2024. 

Part of the Ixodos series of Independent Artistic Exchanges, 2019-25


This open-ended entry is a grain of sand contributing to a larger slow revolution of hands-on care. It comes as a frugal and meditative leap of faith — a contribution to a larger wave.

Hosted on freedom-respecting technology that wishes to accommodate multimodal and experimental expressions, this document contains the paradox of having to go all the way around the world in order to understand, heal and (re)discover ways of connecting with one's self, one's people, and one's place. It is a document of learning-points and powerful ingredients. It is a spell for connection. For family. 

Πως θα έμοιαζε μια ριζοσπαστική πολιτική φροντίδας; 

Πρακτικές σύνδεσης στη Βραζιλία και στην Κύπρο.

Μέρος της σειράς Ανεξάρτητων Εικαστικών Ανταλλαγών Ixodos, 2019-25

 

Τι μορφή μπορεί να πάρει η φροντίδα όταν πηγάζει από μια ριζoσπαστική πρόθεση συνύπαρξης; 

Αυτό το εικαστικό ντοκουμέντο γεννήθηκε μέσα από μια διερεύνηση της τέχνης ως πρακτική αρμονικής συνύπαρξης που επικεντρώνεται στην φροντίδα των παιδιών, του εαυτού, και του περιβάλλοντος μας. Η πρακτική αυτή εκτυλίχθηκε, εν μέρη, στην κοινότητα του Campo Redondo, στη Βραζιλία, εμπλέκωντας το Noticias da Terra στην Itaipava, και αγγίζοντας το πρόγραμμα καλών τεχνών στο Fluminense Federal University στο Niteroi του Rio de Janeiro, πριν επιστρέψει στην Αγλαντζιά της Λευκωσίας και τα χωριά της Κύπρου. Δεν πρόκειται για ένα "έργο", αλλά για μια καταγραφή που προσπαθεί να συλλάβει τον ρυθμό μιας παιδαγωγικής της φροντίδας, της αναπνοής, του ελεύθερου παιχνιδιού και της γείωσης. Εδώ, η καλλιτεχνική έρευνα συναντά τη φροντίδα ως ηθική, μέθοδο και πολιτική.

Η προσπάθεια αυτή πηγάζει από την αγάπη και την έμπνευση για ενσυνείδητη τέχνη ως τρόπος ζωής που χαρακτηρίζεται από μια  ριζοσπαστική προσφορά φροντίδας, και μπορεί επίσης να επικοινωνηθεί ως κοινονικά-ενταγμένη παιδαγωγική κινητοποίηση.

Contents / Conteúdos / Περιεχόμενα


  1. What might a radical childcare politics look like? A spell by way of a collective translation project of autoethnographic writing

    • What might a radical (child)care politics look like?  [visual essay

    • Πως θα έμοιαζε μια ριζοσπαστική πολιτική φροντίδας;

    • Investigando a possibilidade de uma política de criação infantil radical.

    • Radikal bir çocuk bakımı politikası nasıl olabilirdi? Kıbrıs’ın dört bir yanında, toplulukla iç içe geçmiş bir öğrenme ve bakım anlayışına doğru. OR Radikal bir çocuk bakımı politikası nasıl olabilirdi? Kıbrıs genelinde toplulukla bütünleşmiş bir öğrenme ve bakım yönünde.

 

  1. Local newspapers as part of the solution

    • Noticias de Campo Redondo: Recipes

 

3. What might a revolutionary art-school politics of collective care feel like? with Luiz Guilherme Vergara, Tato Taborda, the University of Federal Fluminense Art programme, and Ianos Loizides, August 2024


4. Film: “This is not a project. This is a way back home” a 5-minute film capturing the heart of “What might a radical childcare politics look like?” [v.7, final forthcoming)


5. with Livia Moura 


6. Acknowledgements & Bibliography

An Exposition for the Artistic Research Catalogue, created by Chrystalleni Loizidou,

in community with Ianos, Livia Moura, Teo and Kito, Lila Almendra, Sylvia Hadjigeorgiou,

Loizides George, Carolina Cortes, Carou Tresbisch, & the Eimaste Cooperative

with the kind support & funding of the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture

**best viewed on a computer screen**

with material in Greek, Portuguese, Turkish, and English

Investigando a possibilidade

de uma política de

criação infantil radical

Práticas conectivas no Brasil e Chipre, 

Parte da série Ixodos de Intercâmbios Artísticos Independentes, 2019-25


O que seria uma política de criação infantil radical? Essa é a questão que nos move neste exercício de observação e interação vivenciado com a comunidade do Campo Redondo, em Itamonte, durante os meses de julho e agosto de 2024.

Neste período, nós, Lila e Chrystalleni, a convite da querida Livia, pudemos atuar em alguns dos projetos em curso, além de vislumbrar o funcionamento de uma comunidade que mantém práticas estimulantes de gestão coletiva e solidariedade.

Uma das dimensões mais importantes desta vivência é a educação: de que maneira as crianças são parte da comunidade e atuam junto aos seus membros como protagonistas do saber e do fazer comunitário?

A comunidade do Campo Redondo se organiza coletivamente há bastante tempo, colecionando experiências comunitárias principalmente ao redor das escola sem muros, mas também na lã de carneiro e na queijaria.

Coletamos então material de hoje e de ontem para pincelar a experiência de uma educação radical, que vem sendo desenvolvida no bairro desde a década de 80.

Lila Almendra
10/12/2024