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| Pirate Care: Learning From Disobedience |
We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people's lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise couldn't get them. Folks are getting in trouble for giving food to the poor, medicine to the sick, water to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless. And yet our heroines care and disobey. They are pirates.
The exhibition Pirate Care is an introduction to the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of "care" and "piracy", which are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the "crisis of care".
Throughout our lives we depend on the support of our family, friends, strangers and institutions to sustain ourselves - and to sustain the world in which we and the future generations have to live. That social and ecological interdependency defines the relations of care. The effort to sustain them the labour of care.
Yet, the convergence of processes that include the rollback of welfare, imposition of workfare, attacks on reproductive rights and the criminalisation of migration have denied that vital support to many.
Against these processes, the practices of pirate care share a readiness to disobey laws and orders whenever these stand in the way of solidarity — and politicise that disobedience to change the status quo. That makes them pirate care.
The exhibition builds on the Pirate Care Syllabus. The first version of the Syllabus was created in November 2019 during a writing retreat in Rijeka with the activists of pirate care. We have originally planned to organise in September of this year a get-together to collectively learn from the Syllabus. This was not meant to be.
Nonetheless, here you are. We invite you to learn from the practices of pirate care. We invite you to mirror them in solidarity!
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak
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