Due to the increasing number of infections the event has to take place online, some parts of the program will be postponed until we can meet again on site. Via Zoom, there will now be online lectures, talks, film screenings and artist talks, which will focus on questions of care. The event will conclude the curatorial cycle 2019/20, in which Sascia Bailer as Artistic Director of M.1 focused on care through participatory formats and socially engaged art.

Written during lockdown, published in the second wave of Corona: The kuratieren-booklet #6 Curating, Care, and Corona by Sascia Bailer is out now! This booklet is many things: a critical questioning, a doubting, a reflecting, sometimes also a plea. But above all it should also enable insight into the 2019/20 curatorial programme on Care at M.1, and invite readers to continue with their own related lines of thought. The text unites five fragments that engage with artistic works and curatorial formats from Sascia Bailer ́s programme, each in the context of societal discourses surrounding care, curating, digitality, alternative economies and the necessity of new social infrastructures.

The scholar Joan Tronto introduced the concept of care into political philosophy, arguing for a caring democracy. As part of #Caring of the New Alphabet School the curators invited eight scholars and artists to write public letters to Joan Tronto that share their thoughts on the current state of care during this global pandemic. And Joan responded.

Sascia Bailer is the Artistic Director of M.1 in 2019/20 and shapes the Foundation's programme in 2019/20. Her curatorial projects focus on the complex issues around Care. Through various formats and a locally oriented programme, she seeks to open up new perspectives on issues of care-work and communal living.

Over a period of three years (2020-2023), the research project Wasteland? Rural Landscape as Affective Space and Cultural Education as Pedagogy of Localization, based at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, examines the connection between cultural education, feelings of belonging and practices of localisation, starting out from three institutions in rural areas. Media and cultural theorist Fiona Schrading has been investigating the work of the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung and the events in M.1 since May 2020. A short video about the research project –including footage from Hohenlockstedt – can be found can be found by clicking on this info box.