Caring for / from the Future
Swoosh Lieu
What will our everyday life look like after the revolution in care work? How do we live, how do we love, who takes care of us? And do we actually still work?
The feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu has invited people to imagine such a future. The utopia formulated in the present tense makes another life seem tangible. Between interviews, pans and zooms flash up on places in the city that bear other functions in this speculative future: administrations for unconditional basic income, multigenerational living in the middle of the city centre, care councils. Together, the residents dream of a society in which gender roles are broken down, sexist, classist and racist discrimination is a thing of the past and the care revolution has ensured a good life for all.
Cast & Credits
Concept, Production: Johanna Castell
Concept, Sound: Katharina Pelosi
Concept, Video: Rosa Wernecke
Featuring: Jamila Akhardid, Simone Dede Ayivi, Aleksandra Borys, Caro Froelich, Franziska Haug, Samah Hijawi, Linda Kagerbauer, Anna Kellermann, Melissa E. Logan, Corinna Nachtwey, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Marius Packbier, Marlene Peter-Schmit, Aïlien Reyns, Esther Schietinger, Aboulkacem Younès
A work commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Brussels in 2021.
The project is part of the format & FRIENDS GASTSPIEL and is realized within the framework of FESTIVALFRIENDS, a festival association of the Freie Darstellende Künste in Germany. FESTIVALFRIENDS is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media through the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e. V.’s programme “Verbindungen fördern”.